Michael Rader

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

This morning my goal is to get to a meeting of the local Singing Resistance at 10am. Obv I cannot do much singing now, but once I have new lungs I plan to use them.

I am struggling this morning. Chest is feeling tight and I didn't sleep well. One week out from Testing Week and I am counting the days.

Once I get to Duke, I will know how much my disease has progressed and how soon before I'm listed for transplant.

If we lived in a just world, everyone who's ever been woken up by a car alarm would be allowed to punch him in the face.

Well done.

I hope someone sets off a car alarm outside his window every day at 4am for the rest of his life.

100% Nintendo. By the time this is litigated DOJ will be down to Pam Bondi and three weiner dogs in a trench coat.

Unsure would be higher.

@ryangrim - An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit. @KanwalSibal replies - An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

This is indefensible

I get that most people aren't great at pattern recognition but come on. How are we still doing this

It was Maniac Mansion too, which is hardly the most egregious example.

Keep up the gathering, you're doing great.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

my subconscious must have veto'd it for some inexplicable reason

the word "routine" in front of "traffic stop" is doing a lot of work here.

He looks like his mom tied his tie for him.

I was 21 and this was before wikipedia.

It was a long time ago, but I remember my landlord saying he loved it. He was/is a professional music technician, has worked with a ton of huge artists. Still posts photos of himself on tour all over the world.

Nah he was a great guy.

I considered this course of action, but it was the only place I could afford to live in town.

That is a great question! I do not know for sure, but he did have a 100% fully black wardrobe that appeared to be standard issue. (He gifted me a Fragility tour shirt when I moved out.)

There was a big sectional couch on the first floor and I was sure it was hiding in the cushions. Every time I walked in the front door, I had a vision of it coming out of the cushions and strangling me. He was a solid guy but I'm glad I didn't live there very long tbh.

He told me to "keep an eye out" and put it back in its tank if I found it. I told him I was not going to do that. He didn't seem too concerned; apparently it would usually find its way back. I was pretty sure it couldn't climb stairs, so I think I just hid in my room until he came home.

I once got a call from my landlord while he was in the studio recording with Trent Reznor, asking me to check if his giant boa constrictor was still in its tank. It wasn't.

Radio op on bombers in WW2, then worked in broadcast at WGN. Helped invent the first mobile TV news broadcast units. Later a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol.

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The older I get the more I realize how much success is serendipity.

Newsome is a narcissist and you can trust him as much as you can Trump. He might occasionally tell the truth by accident. He believes with his whole heart in whatever helps elect Gavin Newsome.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.