yhwx

Also: should an 81-year-old have a gun? I’m inclined to say ‘no.’

ray_afraid said:

yhwx said:

Also: y’all should use Macs.

chyron8472 said:

If you’re into graphic design or video editing, sure. I am not.

I’m into graphic design (part of how I make a living), video editing (hobby) and music production (both) and I just don’t get along with Macs.

Good for you.

I don’t remember you having fifty *sigh*s in a day, last time I checked.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-accidentally-shoots-wife-church-discussing-weapons-churches/story?id=51221000

A man accidentally shot himself and his wife in their Tennessee church after he had taken his gun out during a discussion about weapons in places of worship, police said.

The man, 81, and his wife, 80, both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The incident happened Thursday afternoon as members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains – about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville – were gathered at the church for a pre-Thanksgiving lunch, Tellico Plains Police Department Chief Russ Parks told ABC News.

The church members were discussing weapons in places of worship on the heels of the shooting at a Texas church earlier this month that killed over two dozen people, Parks said, and “one of the gentlemen said, ‘Well, I take my gun with me everywhere.’”

The 81-year-old man took his handgun out of his pocket, removed the magazine, cleared the weapon and handed it to other churchgoers who wanted to see it, Parks said.

He then took his weapon back, placed the magazine back in it, put the gun back in his holster and placed it in his pocket, Parks said.

When another man came over and asked to see the weapon, the man pulled his gun back out of his pocket and accidentally hit the trigger, firing one round, Parks said.

CatBus said:

It’s doesn’t have quite the same quality as Moore’s “Who Would Jesus Molest?” defenders, but I do see a lot of liberals playing Change the Subject awfully damn hard with regard to Franken. There’s about a bazillion discussions going on in liberal circles about Roger Stone and the Russian bots knowing about the allegations before they became public. Sure, it’s a politically motivated hit job. I don’t ever think that was ever in any serious doubt. But the thing is, this political hit job seems to have an actual basis in fact, making it very much different from the things thrown at Clinton by the same actors.

For crying out loud, Franken is not contesting the accusation. He’s referred himself to the ethics panel. Is that enough? No, actually it’s definitely not enough in the end, but it should be enough for his supporters to stop trying to defend him by calling the accusation “fishy”. Fishiness isn’t nearly as important as truth.

Exactly zero liberals are saying Franken groped this woman just the same way John the Baptist groped Elijah so it’s okay. But this is only because liberals and conservatives think differently. But they both have the same defend my team instinct, and sadly very little respect for the seriousness of the issue of sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment (should be) a non-partisan issue, and it’s rampant in places without oversight, such as Congress. There are absolutely more Democratic congresspeople who engaged in similar and worse behavior. And more Republicans too. And I’m not particularly sad about the prospect of dirt being dug up on the lot of them.

Huh, what you’ve described has not been the reaction I’ve seen from liberals.

darth_ender said:

No, don’t worry. It’s alright because it was Al Franken. Just look at the Twitter comments. Doggone it, people like him!

I think you’re looking at the wrong liberals on Twitter.

TV’s Frink said:

Are you joking?

No. Why?

Well this is unfortunate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/politics/al-franken-sexual-harassment-groping-forcible-kissing.html

WASHINGTON — A growing national outcry over sexual harassment reached the Senate on Thursday, when a radio newscaster accused Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, of kissing and groping her without consent during a 2006 U.S.O. tour of the Middle East before he took public office.

Mr. Franken, who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, almost immediately released an apology to the newscaster, Leeann Tweeden, who said that Mr. Franken forcibly kissed her during a rehearsal and groped her for a photo as she slept. After initially apologizing without fully acknowledging all of her accusations, he then released another lengthier, more contrite statement that contested nothing.

“The first thing I want to do is apologize: to Leeann, to everyone else who was part of that tour, to everyone who has worked for me, to everyone I represent, and to everyone who counts on me to be an ally and supporter and champion of women,” Mr. Franken wrote.

“I respect women. I don’t respect men who don’t,” he continued. “And the fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed.”

I don’t worship him. But he seemed like a pretty nice guy.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I have a burgeoning headache, and my recent forays into the Invisible Thread have done nothing to curb it.

It’s usually not advisable for me to look at any sort of screen when I have a headache.

I actually have some pretty nice hair.

But you will never be shown it.

darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

JEDITED 'cause not worth it.

Sometimes it’s not.

hmm

*sigh*

whatever.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

These PM threads are out of control.

They might be if I was in many of them, but I am not so I can’t tell.

Any of them is too many.

I mean, you could just not read them.

TV’s Frink said:

I was gonna say “wrong thread” but the right thread is still locked…which doesn’t make much sense.

Right thread.

I had a pretty severe head and stomach ailment.

darth_ender said:

Yes, I love him too.

Good.

Tyrphanax said:

Yeah when the OS is consistently shitty

lol

Jesus.

chyron8472 said:

Happened to 9?

Word is that Microsoft wanted to distance 10 from 8. They didn’t want people to assume 10 was the next logical step from 8, but a new idea entirely, so they skipped 9. Apparently the #'s “7”, “8” and “10” don’t mean anything. They’re just numerical names akin to using “XP”.

Also: compatibility. Old applications would look for the person “Windows 9” and assume you were running Windows 95 or 98. MS wanted to avoid that too.

Also: y’all should use Macs.

I don’t know how to get it to go to get back in to get it ready.

TV’s Frink said:

Why would someone put fried chicken on a cake?

America.

TV’s Frink said:

Lol I like that yhwx thinks he has any standing in this thread.

TV’s Frink said:

Sometimes you have to ruffle some feathers to make an effective protest.

dahmage said:

yhwx said:

Can’t use different windows?

i could, but it’s easier my way. browser will open last place it was open. your way is too much window management.

Too much window management? No such thing. 😉

Can’t use different windows?

This is insane.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/two-more-women-describe-unwanted-overtures-by-roy-moore-at-alabama-mall/2017/11/15/2a1da432-ca24-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html

Gena Richardson says she was a high school senior working in the men’s department of Sears at the Gadsden Mall when a man approached her and introduced himself as Roy Moore.

“He said, ‘You can just call me Roy,’ ” says Richardson, who says this first encounter happened in the fall of 1977, just before or after her 18th birthday, as Moore, then a 30-year-old local attorney, was gaining a reputation for pursuing young women at the mall in Gadsden, Ala. His overtures caused one store manager to tell new hires to “watch out for this guy,” another young woman to complain to her supervisor and Richardson to eventually hide from him when he came in Sears, the women say.

Richardson says Moore — now a candidate for U.S. Senate — asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve.

A few days later, she says, she was in trigonometry class at Gadsden High when she was summoned to the principal’s office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a phone call.

“I said ‘Hello?’” Richardson recalls. “And the male on the other line said, ‘Gena, this is Roy Moore.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ He said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m in trig class.’ ”

Richardson says Moore asked her out again on the call. A few days later, after he asked her out at Sears, she relented and agreed, feeling both nervous and flattered. They met that night at a movie theater in the mall after she got off work, a date that ended with Moore driving her to her car in a dark parking lot behind Sears and giving her what she called an unwanted, “forceful” kiss that left her scared.