War Room Lounge v53: Short Notice

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Trotsky said:
Check out the comments on the attached article.

Fuck. ing. incredible. Just a bunch of yokels not reading the article at all and just repeating that Rich was killed by Hillary.
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My favorite replies are the ones that are saying that it's the MSM trying to bury the Epstein story.
 
I think "autoerotic asphyxiation belt" is kinda catchy.
 
AgonyandIrony said:
It's also about culture and tradition. Brass bands have been playing that corner for decades. It's honestly my favorite place in the entire city. Nothing but amazing jazz clubs, good food, and partying until the wee hours of the morning.

It wasn't even curfew, there's a video online of the cops pinning down a "slow" brass player who is really well known locally who the musicians kind of took on and the look on the business owners faces is priceless.

https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/...79e72-a27c-11e9-990c-93abcceed1dc.html?uiasdf

I live across the street from a bar open until 8AM two blocks from Bourbon Street and the noise can be annoying sometimes I'm not going to complain about it.
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LOL at responding with more than a dozen cars, wtf
 
Jack V Savage said:
It's weird. Halfway in, and I'm not sure whether I like it or not, but I can definitely recognize it as something special and brilliant. The first section was great.

I also have no recollection of how it got on my radar or why I put it on my Amazon list. I'm quite sure that no one I know recommended it. That mystery actually kind of adds to the experience. Just trusting that past JVS knew what he was doing when he wanted future JVS to read it.
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Bolano's 2666 got a lot of critical attention, I think that may have put it on a lot of people's radar (I haven't read 2666). He also died relatively recently. 'Detectives was a recommendation from my buddy, read it about 10 years ago? What is crazy, is couldn't find a good podcast for my CA trip last month so I got it on Audible and listened to the beginning again. Will knock out the second part next week week when I go back.
 
Gregolian said:


So... NFL players think they can get a supervisor to get out of a traffic ticket?
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Amazing he wasn't shot. That dude is enormous. The second he got up from being tazed and went for the cop I think most officers would have shot him, and rightfully so. That guy at any moment could have taken the cops gun. That dude is fucking huge and powerful. I'm surprised the cop even tried to subdue him solo.
 
Trotsky said:
I think the obvious context of the claim was all Republicans that would be potential presidential candidates, with the farthest you could stretch it being all Republicans in federal office.
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How hard is it to specify that in a response or two before it becomes an issue?

Yes, I concede that there might be some Republican head of government for Buttfuck, North Dakota, whose only job is making sure the snowplow guy doesn't get too drunk on nights when a big snow is expected might be more generally palatable to the median voter than a New York-seated female senator.
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Oh for Pete's sake . . . this is pathetic dude.
 
Rational Poster said:


#FreeRocky

@AgonyandIrony
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Lord Pretty Flacko :( apparently he's being kept in some shitty conditions.
JDragon said:
LOL at responding with more than a dozen cars, wtf
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They don't even respond with that many for a shooting. NOPD should have told them to fuck right off. It wasn't even curfew.

12 cars is clearly looking for an escalation. $20 says someone puts a brick through the bookstores window soon.
 
https://www.courthousenews.com/black-voters-still-back-biden-but-support-is-softening/

While a third of Democrats support Biden’s 2020 bid for presidency, a majority of voters are still weighing other candidates. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont remains in second place, with support from 19% of Democrats polled. Harris gained a slight advantage over U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, but both remain more or less tied for third place.

The poll also indicated Warren and Harris fall behind Biden and Sanders in terms of name recognition, with 10 to 15% of voters saying they have never heard of either woman.

Before the debate, 38% of Democrats polled supported Biden, compared to 31% after. After Harris called Biden out on his work with segregationist politicians and his opposition of federally funded school buses, Biden notably lost support from 8% of black Democrats who had previously said they would vote for him.

But 76% percent of black voters still view Biden favorably, with 38% saying they would vote for him. Meanwhile, 16% of black voters stand behind Harris – five points fewer than Bernie Sanders.

Most support for Harris comes from white liberals. Forty-nine percent of voters who say they support her described themselves as liberal, with roughly a fifth claiming to be very liberal and a fifth falling moderate. Sixty-nine percent of her supporters are white and 23% black.
 
AgonyandIrony said:
$20 says someone puts a brick through the bookstores window soon.
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Hopefully not. This is a prime gentrification example, and power will always align with the money there. Best way would be civil disobedience by just, you know, playing on and risking legal escalation for further attention. Once stones are thrown, the public will side with those who did not break the law.
 
JDragon said:
Hopefully not. This is a prime gentrification example, and power will always align with the money there. Best way would be civil disobedience by just, you know, playing on and risking legal escalation for further attention. Once stones are thrown, the public will side with those who did not break the law.
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Not here it won't though. New Orleans will always side with the musicians.

If y'all want to listen to something that makes me tear up when I listen to it listen to this. I've never heard anyone describe this city better.

 
sickc0d3r said:
I think "autoerotic asphyxiation belt" is kinda catchy.
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https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/...d8w8ofcXyUF4wwJ0Tt0XA-Fz0LFlsYL5FlF8uhCAVnReY


In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group’s practices.

Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.

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A StemExpress supervisor “gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. And I can’t even describe what that feels like,” said Ms. O’Donnell, who has been featured in earlier videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group that previously had released six undercover clips involving Planned Parenthood personnel and practices.


David Daleiden, the video project leader, said the undercover footage and interviews show that fetuses are sometimes delivered “intact and alive” before their organs are harvested.

The federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 says that when a child is born alive, including having a beating heart, he or she is a legal person and has a right to lifesaving medical care.

California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible heartbeat, said the Center for Medical Progress, which is calling for the federal government to cease its $500 million a year support to Planned Parenthood and for it to be investigated.


“Today’s video is especially gruesome, and it shows, once again, the barbarity of what takes place at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country,” said Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, one of several congressional panels investigating Planned Parenthood.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Wednesday that all the videos are “disturbing,” and his committee’s investigation will look into whether “any federal funding supported transactions involving fetal tissue.”

Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

Mr. Franks and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, also said Wednesday that they have written to 58 Planned Parenthood affiliates. They are seeking 10 years of data about all abortions, late-term abortions, “born-alive” infants, fetal tissue collections and any modifications of abortion techniques to “increase the odds of preserving intact fetal tissue and organs.”

Five states — Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Utah and New Hampshire — already have defunded Planned Parenthood.

A request for comment from Planned Parenthood Federation of America about the new video was not immediately available, but the nonprofit organization has denounced earlier undercover videos as fraudulent and misleading.

“These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women’s most personal medical decisions,” Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said earlier this month after a video release.

Meanwhile, pro-life groups are using the videos to step up their calls for investigations and defunding of Planned Parenthood.

Rallies and protests at nearly 300 Planned Parenthood clinics are planned for Saturday.

Mixed poll results

On Wednesday, Reuters/Ipsos released a rolling poll of hundreds of people that found stable support for federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Between Aug. 13 and Aug. 18, about 54 percent of Americans consistently said they support taxpayer funding for the reproductive health and abortion group. Federal funds are not permitted to be used for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or endangerment of the life of the mother.

But when pollsters changed their question and asked a smaller sample of people for their views on “current efforts” to defund Planned Parenthood, the rolling poll showed a shift: Those who agreed that Planned Parenthood should be defunded grew to 39 percent, while those opposing defunding shrank to 34 percent; another 27 percent said they didn’t know.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll further asked people if the undercover videos had affected their views on Planned Parenthood or abortion. The rolling poll found that 45 percent of people said the videos made them “more negative” about Planned Parenthood, while 33 percent said it hadn’t changed their views, 19 percent said it made them “more positive,” and 3 percent said they didn’t know.

As for abortion in general, 51 percent said the videos had not changed their views, while 31 percent said it made them “more negative” about abortion, 16 percent said it made them “more positive” about abortion, and 3 percent said they didn’t know.

In June, the Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood and send the money to community health clinics, but it failed by seven votes.

Separately, StemExpress was in a California court Wednesday in its effort to block the release of a Center for Medical Progress video featuring a recorded conversation with three employees.

The biotech firm, based in Placerville, California, recently ended its relationship with two California Planned Parenthood affiliates to purchase their aborted fetus parts and resell them for scientific experimentation.

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik lamented StemExpress‘ decision to “bail” on Planned Parenthood, and condemned the undercover videos as “pure harassment by antiabortion activists, conniving with opportunistic politicians.”

In Wednesday’s video — the seventh released this summer — the Center for Medical Progress said state and federal laws require that the same treatment be given to an infant born alive after an abortion as to a normally delivered baby.

Ms. O’Donnell said she observed a “beating heart” in a nearly intact, late-term male fetus at the Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose.

A StemExpress supervisor asked to show her something “kind of cool” and tapped the heart of the aborted fetus, “and it starts beating,” Ms. O’Donnell said.

“And I’m sitting here, and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think,” she said.

Then Ms. O’Donnell was asked to harvest the aborted child’s brain, which meant slicing open his face to get at the organ.

“Oh my God, this … just what am I doing?” she recalled thinking to herself after she had complied. “That was the moment when I knew I couldn’t work for the company anymore.”

The seventh video includes an interview with an official with another biotech company who says, “So, you know, there are times when after the [abortion] procedure is done that the heart actually is still beating.”

It also contains a brief interview with another biotech official who says that feticides, like digoxin, are not used when an aborted fetus is going to be dissected for parts because feticides taint the tissues.

Mr. Daleiden, the video project leader, said that not using drugs to kill the fetus before the abortion raises the risks that a child will be born alive.

• David Sherfinski contributed to this report.
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Anung Un Rama said:
Bolano's 2666 got a lot of critical attention, I think that may have put it on a lot of people's radar (I haven't read 2666). He also died relatively recently. 'Detectives was a recommendation from my buddy, read it about 10 years ago? What is crazy, is couldn't find a good podcast for my CA trip last month so I got it on Audible and listened to the beginning again. Will knock out the second part next week week when I go back.
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After doing some research (with this as a starting point), I'm pretty sure it was Jonathan Lethem (probably my favorite living author) who praised it and got me to check it out and put it on my list.
 
sickc0d3r said:
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I just realized someone should invent a belt that just releases once it detects a hand is no longer holding it or something. It would be a very niche market but you'd be saving lives. The flip side is it doesn't work once and you get sued big time which when you consider the potential lives saved vs. lost, its kinda BS.

I could be wrong about how it works though. Is the excitement from the risk they could die or just purely from being choked?
 
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