#Dan McReady

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Don’t know what the fuck they put in body horror protagonists(and horror protagonists overall) that give them so much gender but Jesus Christ I want it

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OZZY OSBOURNE - Patient Number 9

Le dernier bouffeur de chauve-souris revient des limbes avec un album 2.0

Ozzy fait partie des derniers dinosaures du rock/metal. Légendaire par tous ses excès, le prolo de Birmingham a parcouru une carrière épique, avec des frasques excessives. Le madman de 73 ans lutte contre la maladie de Parkinson même si il avoue que c’est pratique pour la masturbation, le prince des ténèbres a un pied dans la tombe et il le sait. « Numer 9 » c’est l’opus de la rédemption.

Pour cela la vieille garde rock britannique a été appelé, Eric Clapton sur "One Of Those Days", Jeff Beck sur deux chansons "A Thousand Shades", ‘’Patient Number 9’’ décédé le 10 janvier 2023, Tony Iommi sur "Degradation Rules" et le sabbathien ‘No Escape From Now’ à la magie noire

Épaulé par l’ami Zakk Wylde au sein des treize morceaux de "Patient Number 9" : rythmiques et parties de solo ravageur ; il y a le bassiste Duff McKagan (GUNS’N’ROSES), le batteur Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), Robert Trujillo (METALLICA ), Mike McReady de PEARL JAM sur le très énergique "Immortal", ‘’Degradation Rules" un solo signé Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, kyuss), et Taylor Hawkins batteur des FOO FIGHTERS disparu en mars 2022 dont cet album est dédié.

Production du directeur artistique et multi-instrumentiste d’Andrew Watt (Andrew Wotman dans les crédits qui a façonné les bouses de Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, DJ Snake), le truc est rutilant, et la voix d’Ozzy surpasse tout ce que l’on a pu entendre à ce jour, un miracle…de la technologie…Cet album a gagné le Grammy Award de la meilleure prestation metal Ozzy Osbourne avec Tony Iommi pour « Degradation Rules » et celui de meilleur album rock. En heavy-rotation sur toutes les radios rock/metal et classic-rock anglo-saxonne, ces treize titres me font penser à l’album éponyme de Slash de 2010. De nombreux guest, plusieurs styles musicaux traités avec une production léchée et des solos en pagaille. Cette musique et ces sons sont friables, les maux sont immuables dans un univers sonique qui conserve son mystère, avec une pochette signée du dessinateur de comics Todd McFarlane (Spider-man, Hulk, Spaw, Batman, etc…).

Ozzy a donné du Sang en désirs encrés, alors peu importe le nombre de lunes qui se lèvent, la vie est comme une couche géologique, tout s'accumule, tout compte, et le prince des ténèbres est encore envie.

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Mark Harris was North Carolina’s 2018 GOP candidate for the House of Representatives, despite (or perhaps because of) expressing some truly delightful notions a few years earlier:

“Harris, as the senior pastor of Charlotte’s First Baptist Church, claimed Islam was ‘dangerous’ and the work of Satan. He also said peace between Israel and the Palestinians could not be achieved until Muslims and Jews accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.”

Harris managed--barely--to squeak out a victory over his Democratic opponent, Dan McReady, by a margin of just 905 votes. He was then rather surprised (and presumably indignant) when the State Board of Elections unanimously declined to certify him as the winner, citing evidence of election fraud on the part of his campaign. Prominent Republicans were quick to respond... and, predictably, blamed everything on the Democrats:

“This will inevitably end up in court. The fact of the matter is Mark Harris won the race. He got more votes.”

“The democrats decided not to certify the results. Period and everyone know it. This is the most non-transparent I have ever seen a gov’t body act. One board member says there were problems/irregularities of some unknown kind in some unnamed place.”

“We are trying to keep the democrats from stealing the Congressional race from Mark Harris. ... But you know they’ll steal it if they can. ... this is just a test to see if they can steal North Carolina from Donald Trump in 2020.”

So a convicted felon named Dowless McCrae, who worked for the Harris campaign, was “accused of leading an effort to illegally collect and send in absentee ballots. His workers testified that they were told to forge signatures or gather blank or partially completed ballots from voters.” In the only two counties that Harris won, over 1600 absentee ballots weren’t returned, far above the district-wide average of 24%. And one of those counties--the one in which two-thirds of the absentee ballots were never counted--was the only county in which Harris won more absentee votes than McReady:

“In Bladen County, 61 percent of the accepted absentee by mail ballots went Republican--the only county to do so; meaning that along with the almost 20 percent of loyal registered Republicans who voted that method, Harris would have also received almost all the registered unaffiliated voters and/or some Democratic registered voters to make it to 62 percent of the vote.”

In the face of overwhelming evidence that McCrae broke multiple election laws and tampered with absentee ballots--and some evidence that Harris himself was not completely unaware of McCrae’s tactics--Harris ultimately conceded that a new election was warranted. The Board unanimously agreed and ordered one. Again, Prominent Republicans were quick to respond... ... and, predictably, were somehow still able to blame everything on the Democrats:

“Asked about the North Carolina race last week, [Donald] Trump said he condemns fraud “of any kind, whether it’s Democrat or Republican.” He again pointed, without evidence, to a claim that a ‘million fraudulent votes’ were cast in California.”

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used the North Carolina race to criticize Democrats on Tuesday. He conflated the election fraud allegations against Dowless — which involved people who work for him collecting and sending in empty or incomplete absentee ballots — with fraud carried out by the voters themselves. ‘We were hit with left-wing talking points insisting that voter fraud wasn’t real. “Never happens,” they said. That fraud just didn’t happen.’”

Now we’ve learned that Harris won’t be running in the new election, due to alleged “health concerns”:

“Given my health situation, the need to regain full strength, and the timing of this surgery the last week of March, I have decided not to file in the new election for Congressional District 9.”

Of course his decision has nothing whatsoever to do with all the evidence that his campaign engaged in election fraud. Nope, No, sir! Nothing to do with that. Total coincidence.

[racingtoaredlight]

Opening Bell: February 22, 2019

At the end of Election Day in November 2018, it was clear that Democrats had secured a decisive victory in the House of Representatives, flipping several seats that, in some cases, had been in GOP hands for decades, and as a result wresting control of the chamber from the GOP. There were, however, several races which were not decided on Election Day, or even in the days or even weeks after. Gradually, one by one, the votes were tallied in these electoral contests and candidates conceded while others declared victory. This occurred one by one until the only uncertified race remaining was for the 9th Congressional District in North Carolina. Republican Mark Harris had handily won his party’s primary and consistently maintained a lead of around 1,000 votes on subsequent recounts. It was becoming apparent, however, that something odd had occurred within the district in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Over time, a picture began to appear of Harris having engaged the services of shady political operatives, with a history of ethically questionable practices. With so many questions surrounding the behavior of Harris and individuals associated with his campaign, the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives indicated that they would not permit Harris to be seated in the new Congress until all questions surrounding the election had been resolved. The North Carolina Board of Elections investigated and, at a hearing yesterday, it became clear that Harris knowingly employed as campaign operatives people who intended to interfere with the casting of ballots by voters living in Democratic precincts. Faced with this, Harris abruptly called for a new election and shortly thereafter the Board agreed, and officially ordered that Mark Harris and Dan McReady, his Democratic opponent, who has been raising money for a new campaign since the first week of December, to face voters again in an election which promises to be closely scrutinized. Even if Harris prevails, there remain questions of whether he broke any laws last November.  

As soon as the White House first floated the idea of President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency on the border and using his temporarily expanded executive authority to redirect funds already appropriated by congress to the executive branch towards construction of a border wall, speculation stirred that Democrats, and perhaps even some Republicans, in Congress would support legislation to disapprove and oppose this declaration. The declaration is already the subject of multiple lawsuits, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) played her hand slowly until yesterday, when Pelosi announced that a vote on a resolution rejected Trump’s declaration would occur within days. The measure is certain to pass the House, and may even pick up a few Republican votes along the way, but it is less certain of whether the Senate will pass a similar resolution. Should Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) peel off enough Republican votes to pass the resolution in the Senate, it would go to Trump’s desk, where he has pledged to veto it. Overriding a presidential veto requires a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress and it is highly unlikely that those votes exist in the Senate, therefore the veto will likely stand. In the court of public opinion, however, Democrats will likely have made their point, and the focus will shift towards any ruling on the myriad of lawsuits directed at the declaration. It seems likely that there will be a series of injunctions, stays of the injunctions on appeal, and appeals of those stays. There is not likely to be any decisive outcome in the near future.

Almost from the time he was indicated, arrested, and then released on bond, Trump confidante Roger Stone has been defiant. Within hours of being booked in jail, Stone was appearing on evening cable news shows—not just on Trump-friendly Fox News, but also on CNN and MSNBC—and, true to form, declaring his innocence, attacking the indictment against him by the Office of the Special Counsel, and criticizing the criminal justice system. In response, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a partial gag order on Stone, which did not include him discussing the Mueller investigation on TV or to surrogates. Stone almost immediately abused the generosity of the court and posted a visual of Amy Berman Jackson on his Instagram account with what appeared to be a cross-hairs in the upper left corner. The image was deleted from his account hours later, but not before Stone was targeted with a torrent of criticism. By the end of the day, Stone had replaced the post with a new one showing a typed and signed apology. Stone was ordered to appear in court Thursday, where he was grilled on the witness stand, under oath, by Judge Amy Berman Jackson over his conduct. Stone apologized, explained that the image of the federal judge was not intended as a threat, only for the court to question why, if the Instagram post was not meant to be a threat, why an apology was necessary. At the end of the hearing, the gag order was expanded and Roger Stone will no longer be able to discuss his indictment or pending trial or ask his surrogates to do so for him, and is prohibited from posting on social media. Any violation of this gag order would likely result in Stone being jailed for the remaining time leading up to his trial. Stone may, however, continue to raise money for his legal defense.

Most Americans are familiar with the Vietnam War due to its role as a cultural touchstone in American culture—and counterculture—of the 1960s and 70s. As a result, certain parts of the war are a part of the American historical lexicon, even among those who are not otherwise knowledgeable of the war itself. One such event is the Tet Offensive; a massive surprise offensive launched by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong across all of South Vietnam starting in late January 1968. While from a military perspective, the offensive was a massive defeat for the NVA and VC—casualties for both were massive and while many of their targets were successfully attacked, the U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries successfully dislodged the NVA and VC from every foothold they captured—but from a public opinion perspective, it signaled to Americans that the war was not on the verge of being won. While much of the Vietnam War was fought in thick jungle and over innumerable rice paddies, during Tet, especially in the northern part of South Vietnam, fighting in cities was extensive and widespread. In Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, NVA and VC units occupied one half of the city, and U.S. Marines were tasked with forcing them out; as one battalion commander remarked, Hue was the first time Marines had engaged in urban warfare since the Korean War. The battle for Hue was bloody and brutal; Marines reduced NVA and VC resistance one city block at a time, at a huge cost, particularly when it came time to attack the historic city center; the fortified Citadel of the old imperial dynasties. In mid-February, either the 15th or the 17th, a Marine was shot in the abdomen, attended to by his fellow Marines and perhaps, some Navy Corpsmen, and then transported on a wooden door used as a stretcher to a tank, which then evacuated him and several other wounded Marines from the combat zone. This scene was captured by photographer John Olson. The identity of the wounded Marine, however, remains controversial to this day: was it Albert Grantham, who had suffered a sucking chest wound that was patched up by his fellow Marines using the cellophane from cigarette packs, or was it James Blaine who was hit in the lower abdomen. The difference is important because Grantham survived his injuries, barely, while Blaine died the same day the photograph was taken…assuming it was taken on the 15th and not the 17th, which is also a point of contention. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it can also be the wellspring of a thousand questions, none of which are easily answered. This is a fascinating examination of a famous wartime photograph and just who is actually in it.

H.L. Mencken once said that the “What the American public doesn’t know, is what makes them the American public.” The focus of the American public—either because of or in spite of the efforts of journalists—does not often follow the rhythms of important events around the world. The focus of Americans is often inward, but when it turns to other parts of the world, it is often due to a notion that the interests, and security, of the nation are directly implicated or threatened. This chart, based on a review of 741,681 headlines, aggregates what Americans were focused on by nation from 1900 to 2018, with highlights noted off to the margins. This is just a fun feature to scroll through and click on.

Throughout history, there have been powerful women who have exercised their power, due to social and cultural constraints, in a manner less brazen than a male would behave placed in the same position. Catherine De Medici, a scion of one of the wealthiest families in Europe, is a prime example of this. The Medici were exceedingly wealthy as one of the great banking families of the Continent, but were not of aristocratic origin; something often held against them. During her 69 years of life, Catherine was used as a pawn while a young girl in Florence and, at once point during a siege of Florence it was suggested by the city’s citizens that she be sacrificed as a sexual slave to the besieging army. Later in life, as a member of the French Valois royal dynasty, Catherine struggled to conceive heirs both for the Valois family and for the Medici. Her failure over her first decade as a French royal caused her husband, Prince Henri, to openly court mistresses. Eventually Catherine did bear children; 10 over 12 years, two of whom sat on the French throne after her husband. During this time, Catherine exercised, as regent, the powers of a monarch in all but name, but knew that she could never rule in the same manner as a man. Catherine was an accomplished political leader who, though her own religious principles were questionable, genuinely sought solutions to the French religious wars of the late 16th century. If she had been male, she would rightly be remembered as a great leader, but instead contemporary history labeled her the “Serpent Queen.” This is not stuffy academic profile. I think any of you who read both parts of this review of Catherine will find the writing accessible and even entertaining. Do read both.

Following up on last week’s review of the situation in Virginia, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics surveys the positions of the state’s top three elected officials: Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring. Polling shows that Virginians, but a double digit margin, do not want Northam to resign, and opposition to Herring is at an even lower level, but Fairfax—who is accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct—is in a far more dangerous situation. Despite all of this, Donald Trump remains unpopular in the Old Dominion, and Democrats, despite their scandals remain in the ascendant in the Commonwealth.

  Welcome to the weekend.

[witchyfoxelf]

[comic review] dark horse's the thing from another world comics (1991-93 & 2011)

the thing from another world (comic 1991-92) writer: chuck pfarrer artist: john b. higgins

struggle, until thought is lost–until dreams are lost–until time is lost– swallowed by the howling maw of antarctic night.

yeah, no, this is not good. it did absolutely nothing to justify its existence.

the only thing stopping me from declaring it a soulless cash grab is that the art is actually pretty fantastic, like i think quite a bit of effort went into it, but they just didn’t have a story to tell here. and to me, that is the absolutely one essential element you need to even bother with something like this. d-rank

the thing from another world: climate of fear (comic 1992) writer: john arcudi artists: jim w. somerville & brian garvey & robert jones

“i give up. i can’t do this anymore, i just can’t.”

this wasn’t great or anything, but it was definitely an improvement over the other one.

in this one mcready wakes up on a base in mainland argentina, and it’s honestly just pretty refreshing to at least have some new characters and something different going on. also there’s a huge herd of sheep on the base and obviously one of them gets infected and it’s very tragic but also aww sheep.

the first issue is probably the strongest one, overall this is just kind of okay, but “okay” is still a definite improvement. c-rank

the thing from another world: eternal vows (comic 1993) writer: dave devries artists: paul gulacy & dan davis

“the conflict between the memories of your human nature and the needs of your cells will take time to resolve. it hurts, but it will pass. and i will always be there for you. now that our blood has mixed, we live within each other. we are one. together. forever. ’til death do us part.”

whoa, dang, one of these was actually good! (and is apparently the most-hated of these. what the heck, guys?)

i knew this one had potential when i first heard about the concept. in this story, one of the things that survived the other two stories assimilates a couple and the pair of them just want to live quietly in a small coastal town, eating as many other humans as they need to to survive.

i don’t think this quite fits in with how the things were supposed to work in the movie, but i kind of don’t even care since we finally got a wholly original story in one of these comics. macready eventually shows up because i guess he’s some kind of thing hunter now, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense imo, but again i kind of don’t care!!

issue 3 has a truly iconic moment where one of the things is in human form but with tentacles going everywhere from her, and she licks up some human blood from one of her tentacles. it was weirdly sexy?

also, just when i was starting to think there wasn’t much more they could do in their current setting, issue 4 takes place mostly on a boat!

seriously, i can’t believe this is the most-hated one of these. it’s one of the best ones imo. and it’s largely self-contained so you can safely skip the other two stories and read this one on its own. b-rank

the thing from another world: questionable research (comic 1993) writer: edward martin iii artists: ted naifeh & w. “moose” baumann & alex niño

“you’ve thrown your sense of science, as well as your common sense, out the window.”

this one was much shorter than the others by virtue of being serialized in dark horse comics’ short-lived eponymous anthology series. it appeared in dark horse comics #13-16 alongside the likes of aliens and predator and whatnot, and each of the four parts was around half a dozen pages long. so if you put all of them together you get basically the length of a single issue.

still, this one was in a similar vein to eternal vows inasmuch as it featured wholly original characters. it’s also even more disconnected from the other comics, picking up with a research team investigating the destruction of the antarctic station from the movie. macready doesn’t even show up in this one!

it’s hard to compare this to the other comics given that it’s so much shorter, but it definitely fits in with the movie better than most of them, if that matters to you. but it manages to do so while still also telling a new story with a new group of characters, which is honestly how all of these should be approaching things in my opinion. macready is great, but having him survive the movie at all never really felt necessary to me. if you want to continue this story, you really should find another way to do it like this comic did. b-rank

the thing: the northman nightmare (comic 2011) writer: steve niles artist: patric reynolds

of all the lands they conquered, the icy mass to the north proved to be one of the vikings’ greatest challenges. unlike many of the lands they explored and settled, it was not the indigenous people who were the greatest threat. the enemy was the land itself.

i really loved the concept of this. the idea of a bunch of vikings facing off against one of the things in greenland had a lot of potential. but sadly this was totally phoned in.

i know this was a single issue but it doesn’t give anything time to breathe, you don’t get to know any of the characters at all, and at the end of the day i’m just not sure why i’m supposed to care even a little. the art was good, though? so there’s that i guess. d-rank

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Tuesday Night’s Critical NC Election Is Massive Win for Trump & GOP

A day after President Donald Trump put himself on the line with a rally in North Carolina and urged voters to elect Republican Dan Bishop in the tightly contested special election to represent the 9th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, they did it. According to unofficial returns, Bishop was leading Democrat Dan McReady…

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Democrats forced to admit that Trump helped push GOP candidate in NC over the top in 'bellwether' special election

Democrats forced to admit that Trump helped push GOP candidate in NC over the top in ‘bellwether’ special election

By Jon Dougherty

(NationalSentinel) For an election that was supposed to be a “bellwether” indicator on President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection chances, according to Democrats, a Republican won a special election in North Carolina Tuesday much to the party’s chagrin.

Republican Dan Bishop won the 9th District race by more than 2 percentage points after Democratic candidate Dan McReady jumped…

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It’s Now Racist to Call Your Political Opponent a “Clown”

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Of all the derogatory things politicians say about their opponents, “clown” is one of the most common. It���s a pejorative term, but it’s relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things. It presents a picture of a politician, light on brainpower, doing anything they can to get noticed by the electorate. It’s not harmful to anyone (unless there’s some clown constituency that has yet to get their activism game going), and it’s funny. And in a political world as divided as our country has become, it’s actually refreshing to see a politician resort to some good, clean insults.

Politicians like North Carolina Republican Dan Bishop, who is running for the House of Representatives against Democrat Dan McReady. In an advertisement released this week, a video from the Bishop campaign vowed that the candidate would take on the likes of McReady and the House Squad of progressives.

“They hate President Trump more than they love America,” the narrator says, showing images of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “They’re pushing for open borders and sanctuary cities.”

“They’re not funny,” the narrator continues as the video shows images of Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, and Rashida Tlaib. “They’re downright scary.”

“I’ll go to Congress and fight these clowns for you,” says Bishop in the ad. “It’s time to take the air out of these clowns.”

The video also shows images of everyone from Chuck Schumer to AOC, their faces perched on what looks like those old blow-up punching bags you might have had as a kid, with some clowns in the background.

Okay, so it’s not the most sophisticated political ad we’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty harmless, right?

Wrong.

“It’s not just a particularly lame joke,” warns David Mir of The Daily Kos. “It turns out there’s a disturbing genesis. Jared Holt, one of the tireless folks at Right Wing Watch, reported in April that white supremacists have begun adopting a version of the infamous far-right ‘Pepe the Frog’ meme decked out in clown garb that they call ‘Honkler,’ to symbolize ‘their exasperation over an imagined state of collapse in the Western hemisphere that they largely blame on immigrants and minority groups.’”

Other leftist sites picked up this narrative, insisting that Reddit sites like r/clownworld have given rise to these racist memes that use clowns as both heroes and avatars for a Western world gone mad. Accordingly, any Republican who references “clowns” when talking about Democrats is obviously a member of this dark, underworld society of white supremacists.

Or if they aren’t then…well…

“Whether or not Bishop understands the significance of his ‘clown’ slurs, the propagation of this meme from the cesspools of the internet directly to the highest levels of Republican power shows just how in thrall to the far-right today’s GOP is,” explains Mir.

Oh. So even if Bishop has never heard of “Honkler” or any of this other racist nonsense, his decision to call Democrats “clowns” is proof of the meme’s rise to the top of Republican power?

What.

Keep going this route, Democrats. See what happens on Election Day.

[theprophet359]

A senior CNN political analyst explained why a crooked North Carolina GOP operative was allowed to work in an election that’s garnered national attention over claims of absentee ballot voter fraud. Earlier in the week, the NC Board of Elections declined to certify Republican Mark Harris’ apparent victory over Democrat Dan McReady. Soon after, news broke that the state is investigating claims that Leslie McCrae Dowless, a GOP operative with past fraud convictions, tampered with …