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Speaking of threads and WWIII, here it the trailer for a 1984 movie that makes "The Day After" look like a picnic. Pretty damn sobering.

Somewhat along the same lines was this laserdisc release: It was recalled almost immediatley after hitting the racks in video stores. They made up a story about defective laserdiscs that would be replaced. The dealers knew though and almost none of them got returned as the store owners let customers know what was happening. In reality a suggestive/objectionable poster had been snuck in one of the cartoons. The Japanese and European laserdiscs were edited versions and the US one was never rereleased. I have one but they are not particularly valuable since so many copies made into the hands of the public.

Came to the party late huh? As Jeevan said this has gotten off track.

And who doesn't want to walk around knowing that they could get a free poo face at any moment?

I don't particularly have a side. As I said punish them (6th) - but if you want to have anything resembling an orderly society that is not going to happen if you allow mob rule if it suits your needs, Reminds me of the mob and bread in Rome. That turned out really well didn't it? For what it is worth I sleep just fine if that is what you are trying to get at.

I haven't defended sedition - punish the ninnies from the sixth. I just wanted it viewed in a proper perspective in regards to the rest of the insanity that has taken over the country (You seem to want to defend the sedition in Portland though.)

Oh the amount of damages doesn't justify anything - so not a pretext. It does indicate the relative actual damages done by the two sets of events. (There is a concept in law where partipants of a crime share blame equally - so if a bank is robbed and a guard killed the getaway driver is equally culpable even though he/she may not have been armed or in the bank.)

People burning down cities under whatever flimsy pretexts gets me riled up. Far more people were damaged by those but that doesn't seem to bother a lot folks. ^___^ If the latter is aimed at me you are off by a country mile.

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.

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,

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.

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).

No but they sat around while several cities got torched.

Hell there are some people still whining over the previous one to that. Go figure,

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.

Since I only have a switch I went that route!

This is available for pre-order at Fangamer:

@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!

Oy George and Kosher Club:

Lotsa neat toys here:

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.

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.