I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I don't agree with them on refugees, but was the Skittles thing really all that bad?

Yes. But not in the way everyone is freaking out about it. More because the analogy of three poisonous Skittles out of a handful is so fucking misleading that you might as well make it Russian Roulette.

In fact, "[i]n the US, each year, you are far more likely to die due to choking on candy than due to a terrorist attack by a refugee.

• 1 in 3,408 chance of choking to death on food

• 1 in 3,640,000,000 chance of being killed by a refugee in a terror attack"

Source: US National Safety Council, Cato Institute

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes. But not in the way everyone is freaking out about it. More because the analogy of three poisonous Skittles out of a handful is so fucking misleading that you might as well make it Russian Roulette.

In fact, "[i]n the US, each year, you are far more likely to die due to choking on candy than due to a terrorist attack by a refugee.

• 1 in 3,408 chance of choking to death on food

• 1 in 3,640,000,000 chance of being killed by a refugee in a terror attack"

Source: US National Safety Council, Cato Institute

TM

So the real danger is all the "good" skittles?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Once you decide you're not going to eat of the skittles because a couple of them are bad, what are you going to do with them?

Leave them for someone else?

Also this.

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa

Clinton up 1% (w/o Bradley effect, if it will be)- Florida tied- Trump up in Ohio.

There may be solid math that terrorist attacks by immigrants are not anything to worry about, but this math right here is impacted I think.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes. But not in the way everyone is freaking out about it. More because the analogy of three poisonous Skittles out of a handful is so fucking misleading that you might as well make it Russian Roulette.

In fact, "[i]n the US, each year, you are far more likely to die due to choking on candy than due to a terrorist attack by a refugee.

• 1 in 3,408 chance of choking to death on food

• 1 in 3,640,000,000 chance of being killed by a refugee in a terror attack"

Source: US National Safety Council, Cato Institute

TM

Trump will tell you though, we can't avoid food.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa

Clinton up 1% (w/o Bradley effect, if it will be)- Florida tied- Trump up in Ohio.

There may be solid math that terrorist attacks by immigrants are not anything to worry about, but this math right here is impacted I think.

And this probably won't move the needle at all:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...dc7_story.html

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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Trump will tell you though, we can't avoid food.

Given the relative odds of a terrorist act from a refugee occurring, it shouldn't matter what Trump will tell me. But I guess that means you're right, because if he puts everyone else in the position of explaining this to his core group of low-information, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic supporters (or the ones who don't outwardly support him yet), he's already won this issue.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Given the relative odds of a terrorist act from a refugee occurring, it shouldn't matter what Trump will tell me. But I guess that means you're right, because if he puts everyone else in the position of explaining this to his core group of low-information, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic supporters (or the ones who don't outwardly support him yet), he's already won this issue.

TM

even more so, the odds of terrorist attacks are much smaller than what you quote where most Trump supporters live. I'm just really fucking scared, not of ISIS, of Donald. Even a few weeks ago she was up by a lot.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

even more so, the odds of terrorist attacks are much smaller than what you quote where most Trump supporters live.

While that's true, this stabbing attack at the mall in St. Cloud, MN is scary for the potential backlash. That area is as rednecking as Minnesota gets, usually good for something like one hate incident a year that makes the news, and yet there's apparently a non-trivial Somali community there.

The local white population is, of course, about as safe as you can get from terrorism, but now they're got a specific reason to believe otherwise.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

So the real danger is all the "good" skittles?

Yeah, the message I'm getting is stay the fuck away from Skittles. I never liked them, anyway. And by "them," I mean Syrians. No wait, I actually mean Skittles. Non-metaphorical Skittles.

On to the Daily Dose. One funk oddity that I have noted over the years is the multiple covers of Spinning Wheel. It's a very popular tune. Let's explore:

Jimmy McGriff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_r6wb80Ci4

Dr. Lonnie Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca2-uumYyI

James Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0vKfJkJzQ

Shirley Bassey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ggZQCz8A4A

There is also 3rd Bass, which sampled the original Blood, Sweat and Tears in the Beastie Boys dis track, “Sons of 3rd Bass”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXWxbrlz8Yw

Tribe Called Quest actually sampled the Dr. Lonnie Smith version in “Can I Kick It”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ubKHzujy8

And then, well then there’s . . . this, which makes me really happy and also confused, but in a happy way. Ladies and Gentlemen, today’s extended Daily Dose concludes with the lovely and talented Barbara Eden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABM14m7s7k

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Yeah, the message I'm getting is stay the fuck away from Skittles. I never liked them, anyway. And by "them," I mean Syrians. No wait, I actually mean Skittles. Non-metaphorical Skittles.

On to the Daily Dose. One funk oddity that I have noted over the years is the multiple covers of Spinning Wheel. It's a very popular tune. Let's explore:

Jimmy McGriff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_r6wb80Ci4

Dr. Lonnie Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca2-uumYyI

James Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0vKfJkJzQ

Shirley Bassey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ggZQCz8A4A

There is also 3rd Bass, which sampled the original Blood, Sweat and Tears in the Beastie Boys dis track, “Sons of 3rd Bass”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXWxbrlz8Yw

Tribe Called Quest actually sampled the Dr. Lonnie Smith version in “Can I Kick It”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ubKHzujy8

And then, well then there’s . . . this, which makes me really happy and also confused, but in a happy way. Ladies and Gentlemen, today’s extended Daily Dose concludes with the lovely and talented Barbara Eden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nABM14m7s7k

OK. I'm not going to ask how you came across the Barbara Eden stuff. We don't need to know.

But it saddens me that you don't want to taste the rainbow.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Leave them for someone else?

Also this.

I feel for the poor members of the skittles marketing team.

Still, we should win this election, because we're scarfing down tacos at every corner while they're avoiding even the skittles. Low energy. Sad.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwODbl3muE

with:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...nning_for.html

Forgetting the race for a minute, objectively speaking, this man is mentally ill.

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[Not Bob]

For reasons too boring to mention -- fine, someone asked me a legal question, and I thought to myself, "You know, I should call Spark... shit" -- I was reminded of our friend Sparklehorse earlier today.

So, naturally I turned to Hall and Oates. Accordingly: "She's Gone" (not sure why Pam Grier is walking around in the video, but it's the best version of the album cut of the song I found, and Sparklehorse would be amused, so there you go)

Obligatory Politics Board content: she would hate what Trump is doing.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

[/I][/B]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

...not sure why Pam Grier is walking around in the video...

Not Bob, I understand that there me some cultural differences at play here. I was going to try to excuse you because you may not be familiar with Pam Grier's work, but there she is in the video, being. Pam. Fucking. Grier. So, I have to ask:

Did you just say you're not sure why Pam Grier is in this video??

TM