The Goat Pen

eCat wrote:I bet its still better than the average CCW guy in a shooting situation.

and I hate cops

AlabamAlum wrote:Mentally ill, homeless black man pulls a pocket knife when a police dog starts growling and barking at him from 10ft away. Officers used restraint and subdued the man without incident....


Just kidding, a group of seven officers fired 46 times, killing the man:


https://news.vice.com/article/officer-i ... meless-man

AlabamAlum wrote:The thing that killed me about the video of the model was that if a guy said, "hello" it was recorded as harassment. Hello, for Christ's sake.

In the south, it is common to say hello or howdy or whatever to just about everyone.

crashcourse wrote:election day

thank god

Im averaging 5-8 phonecalls every night from one organization or another

The first year of the Affordable Care Act in Mississippi was, by almost every measure, an unmitigated disaster. In a state stricken by diabetes, heart disease, obesity and the highest infant-mortality rate in the nation, President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law has barely registered, leaving the country’s poorest and perhaps most segregated state trapped in a severe and intractable healthcare crisis.

To piece together what had happened in Mississippi, I traveled there this summer. For six days, I went from Delta towns to the Tennessee border to the Piney Woods to the Gulf Coast, and what I found was a series of cascading problems: bumbling errors and misinformation ginned up by the law’s tea-party opponents; ignorance and disorganization; a haunting racial divide; and, above all, the unyielding ideological imperative of conservative politics. This, I found, was a story about the Tea Party and its influence over a state Republican Party in transition, where a public feud between Governor Phil Bryant and the elected insurance commissioner, both Republicans who oppose Obamacare, forced the state to shut down its own insurance marketplace, even as the Obama administration in Washington refused to step into the fray. By the time the federal government offered the required coverage on its balky Healthcare.gov website, 70 percent of Mississippians confessed they knew almost nothing about it. “We would talk to people who say, ‘I don’t want anything about Obamacare. I want the Affordable Care Act,’” remembered Tineciaa Harris, one of the so-called navigators trained to help Mississippians sign up for health insurance. “And we’d have to explain to them that it’s the same thing.”

aTm wrote:Last week in Internet: Feminist group gets a model to walk around New York City for 10 hours to show how many catcalls she gets and how terrifying and degrading such objectification is.

This week in Internet: Teenage girl snaps picture of "hot" teenage boy working at Target and girls around the country blush and giggle with glee spreading his picture around to all corners.

AlabamAlum wrote:I blame you for this, aTm.