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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 8, 2021 at 5:09 pm
(December 8, 2021 at 12:29 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (December 8, 2021 at 12:24 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Serial killer Ed Kemper befriended the very police officers investigating his murders and would socialize with them at a bar called the Jury Room. They called him "Big Ed" and never suspected him and thought he was joking when he confessed.
Did you also know that while in prison he has narrated a few hundred audio books?
Kemper is an interesting guy. Not someone I would want to be alone with, but interesting to my true crime addicted self.
Yeah, he's fascinating, saw a pretty good TV show which featured him for at least an episode.'Mindhunter'***.
The guy has an IQ of 145. He must be very lonely in prison with possibly no one he considers interesting enough to talk to. Good..
Pity he's a psychopath and possibly a malignant narcissist; no empathy, no conscience. We'd probably consider him amoral, but he may not see himself that way. Such people tend to think along the lines that anything which pleases them is moral. The ultimate hedonist; pleasure good, pain bad. Although with his IQ, Kemper might dress that up a bit.
It's my understanding that truly evil people do not usually consider themselves immoral
*** Mindhunter revolves around FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), along with psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), who operate the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Together, they launched a research project to interview imprisoned serial killers to understand their psychology with the hope of applying this knowledge to solve ongoing cases.[10]
Mindhunter (TV series) - Wikipedia
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 8, 2021 at 5:37 pm
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(December 7, 2021 at 5:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice. Once because her husband was ill and she wouldn't leave and a second time because she wouldn't travel during the worst of the pandemic. She's suggested she may turn it down a third time:
Quote:She said she had already heard from the Biden administration: "Now I feel like if I take it, it'll be doing politics, so I'm not so sure."
The singer added that she does not feel like she deserves the award. "But it's a nice compliment for people to think I might deserve it," she added.
Does this woman's awesomeness know no bounds??
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 8, 2021 at 6:34 pm
(December 8, 2021 at 5:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (December 7, 2021 at 5:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice. Once because her husband was ill and she wouldn't leave and a second time because she wouldn't travel during the worst of the pandemic. She's suggested she may turn it down a third time:
Does this woman's awesomeness know no bounds??
Boru
If there’s any fairness in the world (and I don’t warrant that there is), she’ll be more remembered for her philanthropy than for her music.
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December 8, 2021 at 7:23 pm
The Mexican Constitution of 1917 was the first document in history that said every person has the right to an education.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2021 at 1:06 am
Whorehouse Meadow, a meadow near Frenchglen, Oregon, was renamed in the 1960s to "Naughty Girl Meadow" on the Bureau of Land Management maps. The old name was restored in 1981 after a public outcry.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2021 at 1:41 am
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(December 11, 2021 at 1:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Whorehouse Meadow, a meadow near Frenchglen, Oregon, was renamed in the 1960s to "Naughty Girl Meadow" on the Bureau of Land Management maps. The old name was restored in 1981 after a public outcry.
I should think so. What's wrong with calling a spade a spade? Fucking petit bourgeois prudery. 
(December 8, 2021 at 6:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (December 8, 2021 at 5:37 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
If there’s any fairness in the world (and I don’t warrant that there is), she’ll be more remembered for her philanthropy than for her music.
Boru
Yeah. I've never liked her music much. She has always seemed authentic to me. She did some decent stuff with EmmyLou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2021 at 12:29 pm
Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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December 11, 2021 at 12:42 pm
Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to invent a 3-D wallpaper that would be affordable for most people. The idea was a bust until, with some adjustments, IBM needed a material to protect its products during shipping...the 3-D wallpaper became bubble wrap.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2021 at 12:50 pm
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(December 11, 2021 at 12:29 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.
It’s even worse that that. Since (and including) Kennedy, almost 20% of your presidents have been shot. That’s like, a really, really lot.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2021 at 5:20 pm
(December 11, 2021 at 12:29 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Statistically speaking, the most dangerous job in America is President. Roughly 9% have been killed while in office.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
As far as I can remember, four presidents have been assassinated. I had to look up the names: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. Several have survived attempts.
I honestly thought some extreme left wing nutter would try to assassinate Trump. Wishful thinking I guess 
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