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Tabonga

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  1. Yeah = we will be peaceful while we watch a lot of our fellow mob members burn things - we don't need to stop them. Aidinbg and abetting. Again how much damage resulted from the two sets of occurrences. The ninnies on the sixth had no plan to take over anything - no org charts for the new government nor any plans to either stop or subvert armed forces. If you don't get this I suggest you read up on the 1944 bomb plor against Hitler.
  2. Oooh - apparently I touched a nerve here. The Portland situation was on going - not an isolated incident though was it? And the object was to disrupt things there by destroying the building. Let's total up the total number of rioters nationwide over that summer - far more than maybe 2000 eh? Burning a building is not the same as throwing a trash can through a window, How much physical damage (not to mention deaths/injuries) occurred in total over the course of all those riots versus similar figures for Jan 6th? You said the other side - which indicated Harris no? Pence apparently was not in the Capitol Building either - just on the grounds (which likely means an annex) in a safe location. Maybe he and AOC were having high tea,
  3. I only glanced at it but there doesn't seem to be a breakdown for local vs. Feds - and it includes an unknown number of misdemeanors. It also includes crimes of any political persuasion. I suspect a lot of the local ones will be plea bargained if not just dismissed. Let's look at this way - what percentage of all of those participating in the arsons/looting got arrested? Probably a much lower percentage then the 600 or so people who entered the capitol building.
  4. Sports - that is a clever dodge IMHO. Unrest is pretty vague. Etc, Etc, I suggest an album title for a reason "This film's crap - let's slash the seats." No more accurate but a damn sight funnier. In any event none of those are reasons to give the mob carte blanche. The repeated attempts to burn the Federal Courthouse in (at least) Portland pretty much qualified as sedition yet no one wants to make a Federal case of that one. Harris apparently was not in the capitol at the time after all so it would have been really really difficult to do anything with her (other than in effigy).
  5. No but they sat around while several cities got torched.
  6. Hell there are some people still whining over the previous one to that. Go figure,
  7. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/3-juveniles-injured-after-floor-collapse-during-house-party-in-arapahoe-county When I was in college there was a guy who had massive parties in his rental house - one time they were playing "Louie Louie" by the Kingsman and everyone was jumping up and down at the same time - they managed to crack the main beam in the house. I don't think the floor collapsed but I will bet it sagged.
  8. @RH That was indeed a genuinely stupid idea. It got worse though - that special dvd player just so happened to be only sold by Circuit City (or their various subsidiaries) and cost about $150 or so more than typical players of the time. IIRC the player also had to be hooked up to the modem 24/7 since it periodically received updates. You could renew the use of the DIVX but again only for a limited time window. IIRC you could pay a larger fee to be always able to watch it but that fee put you back in the realm of what DVDs cost back then. When I looked at them they had a bit less than 500 titles available. The quality of the movies was less than a regular dvd and most of the releases were only pan and scan. I am sure you will be pleased to know that I passed on that wonderful tech. (I also skipped (as it were) SelectaVision in favor of Laserdiscs.) I bet Circuit City took a bath on that one!
  9. When my grandfather (who was a master carpenter) emigrated from Norway he was hired by a railroad company to supervise the building of rail stations across the upper midwest. He could not speak English so they hired a translator and paid for him to go to college to learn English.
  10. That book has an interesting history. It was first published in serial form in the Daily Worker (organ of the Communist Party USA) as part of an effort to keep the US neutral in WWII when Germany and the USSR were allied. As soon as that ended the paper quit printing it since it was now ok for the US to intervene in Europe. Go figure. The movie is worth tracking down if you haven't seen it.
  11. I am halfway through a trilogy about linked serial killings by Terry A. Del Bene and Stoney Livingston. Somewhat gruesome but an interesting read.
  12. Heh - this is not what is being advertised - it is not bakelite: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234388802225?hash=item3692a94ab1:g:~J8AAOSwE2Bh7Htx The set pictured is one that was made by a company called Missouri Plastics shortly after WWII - it copied (very likely an unauthorized use) a pattern from a Lowe's chess set that was actually bakelite. Unless someone filled the pieces with something they should be hollow. Actual value - maybe $35-$40 on a good day - maybe a bit more if the case was in good shape.
  13. Does it get much lower than this? https://news.yahoo.com/praying-78-old-robbed-inside-191924620.html
  14. Yikes - one of my brothers lives right there! https://kdvr.com/news/local/watch-4-mountain-lions-prowl-conifer-neighborhood/
  15. Major dumb f**k (on several levels) alert! https://news.yahoo.com/cobra-escaped-homemade-cage-no-192205837.html
  16. It is hard to pass on something you might like at that price.
  17. No physical but I got this from the Nintendo Eshop for free since I had a few bonus coins languishing about, https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/gem-wizards-tactics-switch/?utm_source=indienova
  18. I suppose it beats scrounging for pic-a-nic baskets! https://news.yahoo.com/hungry-500-pound-bear-broken-190230327.html
  19. This makes so much frickin' sense - let's protest a shooting by shooting more people. https://news.yahoo.com/police-1-killed-5-hurt-084410636.html
  20. The game next to it is Pataank which was on 3DO - guessing that the games are grouped by format the game is likely Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Slayer which was also a 3DO game.
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