Gromnir

indeed. lewis observed we need live in the shadowlands while the sun shines somewheres else. ... "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world… no doubt pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument-- it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil. it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul." -- c.s. lewis on the redemptive power o' suffering you do have a habit o' reading quotes so they mean the opposite o' what the author intended, but am s'posing is refreshing in a way. (our quote is from memory, so is likely we got a word or two reversed. apologies.) nevertheless, unlike c.s. lewis, am actual agreeing with your observation 'bout the value o' good news. am just observing how for the genuine hopeless, good news is yet another hammer blow from fate. isn't necessarily rational, but if you ever try and cheer up a depressed person with good news, you may not get the reaction you intended. the sun shining over the next hill or down the road cements the knowledge that the depressed must endure the shadowlands and while such pain may be proof o' God for the diehard catholic, it is a cruel jest for the disconsolate. HA! Good Fun!

for a true depressive, realizing good news keeps happening to other folks will make them feel more miserable. counter-intuitive, tales o' woe have cathartic value as those who see each new day as a cause for lament is able to find some small solace in the recognition that in spite o' their isolation, only in their suffering is they other than alone. that said, and as crazy as it sounds, am having been told our pov is a bit cynical... serious. am also self-aware enough to recognize how a guy who has joyce's the dead memorized is likely not the best role model for achieving healthy warm and fuzzy. HA! Good Fun!

once a year. HA! Good Fun!

our post 2008 solution to avoiding another banking crisis is we keep all our money with tony. downside is he is always asking us to do one more job, for old time's sake. HA! Good Fun!

am not an expert on campaign finance law particularly ny law. that said, am maybe knee-jerking on this, but am reminded o' when republicans were trying to burn hillary clinton for her email stoopidity. is unreasonable to expect a prosecutor to push new legal frontiers when seeking indictments, particularly when accusations o' political bias is inevitable. you could make an argument for prosecuting hillary for her email negligence, but nobody had ever successful been prosecuted w/o actual intent to share secrets with foreign powers. nobody. evar. parse statutes as would a law school student is swell and all, but to explain how hillary were being treated different than defendants in every other previous case were gonna be an almost insurmountable hurdle, not to mention manifest unfair. hate to say it, and gives us no pleasure in doing so, but if trump haters is hoping for a felony indictment based on a novel application o' law, am predicting disappointment. a felony indictment is unlikely, and even if ny goes ahead with such an effort, am suggesting doing so would be unfair in same way were the calls to criminalize hillary. the mar-a-lago documents case as well as the georgia election interference investigations look much more likely to produce felony indictments, so don't feel as if trump is getting away with something. aside: misdemeanor v. felony is poor understood. historical speaking, a felony by definition were a crime punishable by death. misdemeanor, from a legal pov, is crimes less serious than a felony. will surprise few to hear that not all 2023 US felonies is punishable by death, yes? today the ordinary dividing line for a misdemeanor v. a felony in most states is incarcerations o' more than a year. 'course most o' us likely see a year in prison as other than a minor penalty, yes? am admitted not sure what is the penalty for the misdemeanor charges trump is likely to face in ny, but am suspecting is well short o' a year. even so, am knowing people is often surprised when they discover a misdemeanor charge may result in as much as one year o' prison. HA! Good Fun!

aside, am recognizing is unfair and imprecise to say bank deregulation caused 2008. greater oversight and bank regulation woulda' lessened the impact o' 2008 and coulda even prevented it, but is inaccurate to say bank dereg caused the housing bubble burst. were a whole lotta causes and a mess o' willful stoopid necessary to make 2008 happen the way it did. what is mind blowing to us is the collective amnesia regarding 2008 mongst banks and legislators. maybe people at the top need to go to prison for them to stop playing lethal games with the economy? dunno, but greater regulation o' banks should prevent this kinda "thievery." edit: mark grace, a player for the chicago cubs baseball team, once said, "if you're not cheating, you're not trying. and it's only cheating if you get caught." is a funny bit o' pith when is 'bout baseball, but am thinking at some point it should be beyond question that a large enough percentage o' america's ceo types is disciples o' mark grace. metaphorical locks on footlockers won't prevent all thievery by your ordinary bank ceo, but business is an extreme competitive sport and the ceo will do whatever they can get away with to "win." many is gonna push limits o' legal... and then go a bit beyond. yeah, too much regulation strangles business, but how many catastrophes do you need suffer before you realize railroads, banks and oil companies is gonna be reckless with the health, safety and welfare o' employees and customers if doing so means a positive quarterly report? we need safeguards and punishments to deter. we don't have safeguards or punishments? gosh, what could possible go wrong? HA! Good Fun!

is worse than the video makes seem 'cause while is not same bailouts as 2008, the bank deregulation which arguable caused the US version o' the 2008 crisis were all so quick forgotten and repeated. is more than likely bank deregulation is a root cause o' the current problem. dodd-frank were only passed in 2010 for chrissakes and yet in recent years we saw a return to clinton era bank deregulation? were hamstringing dodd-frank a mass hysteria event? perhaps legislators all suffer from momento kinda brain damage? is not as if we are talking 'bout a hundred years elapsing and all those who suffered the previous stoopid is dead and buried. again, dodd-frank became law in july o' 2010. unless everybody in washington and the banking industry ages via dog years, am not seeing the excuse for the kinda stoopid we saw and called out in 2018 when Congress knee-capped dodd-frank. Gromnir is a fiscal conservative and even we saw how brobdingnagian myopic were the bank dereg efforts. btw, in spite o' the hyper partisan nature o' US politics at the moment, more than a few democrats in the house and senate voted in favor o' the 2018 amendment. thanks to manchin and more than a dozen other democrats, the amendment to dodd-frank were safely filibuster proof. aside, is a whole lotta reasons to justifiable dislike elizabeth warren, but she called this. listen up to 1:30... after which she talks 'bout mortgage issues which is all too likely an inevitable future problem related to banks. https://www.c-span.org/video/?442521-7/senator-warren-banking-bill HA! Good Fun!

am gonna suggest people focus too much on the wrong content. flurry polearms for sohei is indeed nice, but it only happens at level eleven. the most difficult part o' the game is early, when you don't have many powers or abilities. so armed with metaknowledge, build experience, the right gear and an ideal supporting party, by the time you hit level twelveish, chances are you are no longer struggling. ... 'course even w/o flurry, sohei is gonna be the current win choice for monks. from start o' game, level one, sohei gets you get a horse, martial weapon proficiency and access to spirited charge. 'cause 'o changes regarding spears and charging, at level one you are gonna do 3x damage on a charge... if you choose spirited charge. you are gonna choose spirited charge level one. play as a human and you should have cleaving finish by level three. a sohei with spirited charge and armed with a longspear finnean is laughing at early game content. crpg axiom: most powerful ≠ most fun. rule o' kool should always win... unless you are playing unfair difficulty wotr. sohei might be most strongk but is it most fun? dunno. @ShadySands for the through the ashes content we had a half orc wildland shaman with a leopard. also had a sacred huntsmaster with a leopard. were two leopards and a horse in our party so we kept our naming convention straightforward: leopard 1; leopard 2; horse. not our most creative moment. leopard were our first animal companion with our angel sacred huntsmaster. gritty kitty. regardless, we wanna play a half orc wildland shaman as a main at some point in the future, 'cause is a stacked archetype. would likely choose a dog. maybe name God even if is a bit sacrilegious. wildland shaman is a serious stacked archetype. HA! Good Fun!

for the fox viewers btw, if you think you were only lied to 'bout january 6, you are being embarrassing naïve. summer 2020 protests and covid coverage? HA! Good Fun!

cameo and hard light pioneered in kane is not just a black and white thing. hardly an isolated example. edit: the first godfather film is homage to kane in terms o' lighting techniques. is worth watching godfather and kane together... at least for film nerds. literal first scene of godfather HA! Good Fun!

we mentioned this with the rittenhouse case, but there is a viscous circle o' stoopid the gun rights folks refuse to acknowledge. because americans is so well armed, every cop traffic stop is creating a reasonable fear for cops 'cause the occupant o' the car reaching under his seat for his driver's license might just as well be reaching for a gun. we pointed out how if rittenhouse had been killed 'stead o' being the killer, those who killed him woulda' benefited from the same self defense case law. some folks reflexive rage whenever there is a cops shooting o' an unarmed individual, but the law protects all american morons and not just cops. is so ez to show the possibility o' fear in any conflict, and because the possibility any american you meet has a concealed weapon, with a beyond a reasonable doubt standard benefitting a criminal defendant, americans will continue shooting each other with the full protection o' the law... presumably 'cause some folks think firearms possession makes 'em more safe contrary to any statistical evaluation o' such claims. again, americans want guns to feel safe. however, because potential everybody has firearms, there is always a reasonable apprehension o' lethal violence during any tense altercation, particular when those conflicts happen at night. we want guns to feal safe, but the fact any american might have a handgun on her person means we is all reasonably afraid. is mind numbing stoopid, but is no good way to fix the problem. HA! Good Fun!

multiclass as a slayer keeps sneak damage high, but then you likely wonder, why not just go full slayer? a few levels of mutagen warrior or demonslayer (a single level o' demonslayer is one o' the more common multiclass dips) will only slight decrease sneak damage while providing noteworthy bab advantages. worth considering. a skald party member is also an option for increasing bab. seelah, wenduag and camellia work well as skald companions. late game, a non merc skald such as seelah is gonna be providing as much as +10 to bab to your party. at level 10, you will enjoy +6 to bab and with strategic use of lingering song, you should be able to use reckless + inspired fury functional in every battle. curious, the skald is also gonna provide you with a bite attack via animal fury, and so too should ember via beast's gift. make sure your second finesse weapon choice is bite if you got a skald providing natural attacks. bards is also fantastic bab buffers, but unfortunate their granted competence bonuses won't stack with a cleric's guarded hearth which makes bard's functional less useful during the important boss battles. rando suggestions: -be sure to take outflank with all non caster party members as such will enhance attack bonuses and increase attacks of opportunity whenever a party member crits... is also a reason for possible taking kukri as your weapon even if you gotta burn a feat to acquire martial weapons. -ever ready is a serious win option, though is only gonna be noticeable later. -opportunist is another must particular as it is gonna have synergy with the aforementioned ever ready. attacking first is also a nice way to effective increase your hit chances as you will catch foes flat-footed, robbing them o' their dex bonuses to ac. assuming your are going high dex, you should already have decent initiative, but make sure to take any opportunity to increase initiative. regardless, knife master and knife master/vivisectionist builds is more than viable at least up to hard difficulty w/o taking any high bab multiclass options. knife master and knife master/vivisectionist is particular lethal as a trickster, though am admitted not a fan o' trickster. curious and mayhap counterintuitive, aeon is also a good option. strength builds have a serious advantage in wotr as they is more likely to be able to stack strength through size increases. melee rogues is particular challenging as they do not benefit from mounted combat, so w/o the pounce ability from kitsune or skald, you are often wasting your first round to reach an enemy. dex builds is requiring a bit more... finesse. btw, rogues improve serious 'round level twelve. you will have enough access to items and party member spell buffs so as to compete with high bab classes. heck, eventual through high umd or vivisectionist multi, you will have access to transformation. aside: we completed the tavern defense yet again. *groan* weird bug as persistent aoe effects is not working during that battle; good news & bad news. our ember's burning entanglement were useless and so to were a grease. at the same time, dretch spamming o' stinking cloud were also ineffective. worked in our favour and am s'posing the bug will eventual be fixed, but am hopeful is only the tavern defense battle which is similar broken. HA! Good Fun!

perhaps is a handful o' poles still twisted up 'bout the treaty of altmark, but am trying with difficulty to imagine legit examples o' modern swedish hate outside indigenous peoples. am suspecting your national ketchup fetish evokes more pity and curiosity than anger. the concocted indignity o' turkey as an excuse to keep sweden outta nato don't feel real, but perhaps am wrong. have never purchased an ikea product but the near universal pop culture knowledge that assembling the swedish furniture ordinary results in frustration might qualify as hate. maybe? is the chinese, iranians and saudis known for purchasing ikea products? is the olympic curling and cross country skiing competition cutthroat enough to inspire hate? so other than the sámi, and a few inebriated kanadian curling fans, am not sure who genuine hates sweden, but am admitted uneducated on such matters. ... converse, everybody hates norway, yes? HA! Good Fun!

what are your options when there is no light at the end of the tunnel? it is pointless to rage and howl at a medical problem. even despair is meaningless. being unwell isn't fair and perpetual suffering is far more likely to kill hope than it is to build character. i am relieved to hear your situation improves. you have my sincere best wishes that you might eventually reach a better tomorrow.

we recruited ulbrig. as far as am able to tell, if you want ulbrig in act 1, you should be able to acquire him anytime up until your assault on the grey garrison. we initial started a new game, but act 1 is prohibitive tedious. am gonna instead use an already existing character. unfortunate, given the saves we have available, am gonna need redo the defender's heart defense. maybe tomorrow. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, not like the mature free thinkers who made up the bulk o' the canadian convoy protests or those qanon folks waiting for jfk jr. in dallas is not a young crowd, eh? am not needing strain our recall to identify other examples. ... if you think there is some kinda age cutoff for gullibility and the desire to be led, then we got a few thousand years o' recorded history which will rebut such notions. in our experience, young people is at least capable o' change. again, we complain 'bout young people all the time, but even so, am recognizing Gromnir's generation is no less broken. 'course this is not the rosy-hued nostalgia and group hug material o' this thread, so am done. HA! Good Fun!

opposite. am always interested in what young people as individuals think. having an opportunity to get university aged kids away from social media and challenge/speak to 'em is a privilege. am the first to roll our eyes at some o' the abject and willful ignorance we see when generalizing the younger generations. am also disappointed by the continuing deterioration o' basic learning and research skills 'mongst those barely old enough to drink legal. as such, feel free to chalk us up as a cranky ol' cripple w/o any guilt. nevertheless, am more optimistic 'bout young persons than those o' us born before the firstest moon landing. is the kids who still believe they may change the world, so they is the only folks who may eventual do so. am rare regretting the chance to interact with young, privileged and unappreciative snowflakes just so long as am able to communicate with 'em face-to-face. have taught a couple classes since retirement. have also taken a couple university courses. w/o school we would probable end up in cranky ol' cripple jail... though am suspecting such involuntary incarceration would take a year or two as 'posed to days. HA! Good Fun!

“Yeah, I’m crazy,” Bourne told The Daily Beast. “Crazy like a fox.” "Bourne, who makes what she calls “cactus art” using glitter and Swarovski crystals, might seem like an unlikely person to plunge the most-watched cable network in the country into an embarrassing, expensive lawsuit." the terrible reality is stories such as this won't make a bit o' difference. the emails from the fox opinion and news hosts admitting their lies won't change hearts and minds anymore than any o' the dozens o' previous stories which did undermine the credibility o' fox and the trump campaign. post 2016 we increasing shifted towards an us v. them dynamic such that it is impossible to admit wrongs 'cause doing so is traitorous or even apocalyptic. ... got nothing. HA! Good Fun!

am also gonna note poison blow darts is more o' a south america and se asia thing. the notorious curare poison is plant-based (moonseed?) but the "poison dart" frogs which is likely what inspired the earlier quip, is south american indigenous. in any event, if poison dartings is the concern, then am thinking brazil or philippines health care should be the target for research. ... just doing our part to cliff clavin a dose o' reality into the otherwise asinine. HA! Good Fun!

huh. edit: limited info, but the extreme brief video included with the wapo story suggests mr. kemp saw self as a victim as 'posed to a villain. vid is providing zero context and am needing read into limited images more than a little, but it looks as if there is no effort to flee by kemp and am believing he may be seen pointing responders towards the direction in which the other incident participant fled. too early to reach any conclusions, but the story were... unexpected. HA! Good Fun!

in the US, the undereducated working class white part o' the majority has, with the help o' rush limbaugh and steve bannon, come to realize they is the real victims o' oppression and discrimination. blm is out there burning down their own communities while the libs qq over wrongs done hundreds o' years past. honest and hard working americans is suffering to put their second kid through college, but who weeps for them? they, the undeserving them such as illegal immigrants and inner city minorities gobble up handouts such as school lunches and snap benefits while decent people struggle silent... save on social media and january 6. you all know the free money programs being paid for by real americans is being wasted on the undeserving p00r, yes?. they is purposeful having more children than they know what to do with and the homeless is just gonna use their free money to get high or drunk anyways, right? the internet and fox news gives the underappreciated and genuine deserving poor educated working class white american a safe and anonymous place for the snowflakes to rage 'bout immigrants, crt and crime. yeah, the immigrants willing to work sh!te jobs for less money arriving just as we had a historic inflation problem reminiscent o' the post spanish flu inflation btw woulda' been a solution rather than a problem for any legit economist, but *insert here something nonsensical 'bout crime and the fundamental wrongness o' illegal immigration while deflecting with meme worthy concentration camp silliness* and no, crt ain't being taught anywhere at public schools in the US save at least the university level. crime got worse during the pandemic and is current seeing higher levels in deep red oklahoma than california, but never let facts get in the way o' a good rant. ... sounds like distilled crazy until you talk to ordinary working class americans. for the past couple decades, the economic situation for undereducated working class whites has been deteriorating in ways paralleling the suffering o' minority groups. you might think the shared burdens would create a kinda empathy 'tween peoples who typical don't intermingle much in the US. nope. thanks to internet, fox news and conservative radio, the "suffering" o' the ignorant snowflakes has been exploited for political gain resulting in previous implausible stoopid such as qanon, tucker carlson and donald trump. brave new world. HA! Good Fun!

and so a harebrained shadowrun style (not shadowrun rules 'course) game but in an indiana jones setting as inspired by the incredibles aesthetic? am cautious optimistic. HA! Good Fun!

serious? first group is almost all neo-nazi and white supremacist. second group is also not particular controversial with beltway sniper, fort hood and omar mateen representing easily recognizable examples. if the feds hadn't split so, Gromnir would ask why they were being so obtuse to avoid the obvious characterizations. HA! Good Fun!

@Sarexmeme says, "anti defamation league." however, can't blame on adl 'cause is likely the me author who borked. "Since September 12, 2001, the number of fatalities caused by domestic violent extremists has ranged from 1 to 49 in a given year.” The report noted: “[F]atalities resulting from attacks by far right wing violent extremists have exceeded those caused by radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of the years since September 12, 2001. Of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in death since September 12, 2001, far right wing violent extremist groups were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while radical Islamist violent extremists were responsible for 23 (27 percent).” where meme got wrong is the number of deaths as 'posed to number of incidents. however, fbi, dhs and doj is all kinda on the same page regarding definitions and the meme is based on a 2017 government accountability office report. read appendix II starting page 28 if you are genuine curious. we will underline below to show where adl got wrong. Summary of ECDB Incident Description Date City State Number of Victim Deaths White Supremacist member of Aryan Brotherhood killed a man 9/15/2001 Mesquite Texas 1 Same white supremacist as previous case but another victim a few weeks later 10/4/2001 Mesquite Texas 1 White supremacist murdered an African American 3/21/2002 Portland Oregon 1 White supremacist skinhead murdered a transgender person 4/10/2002 El Paso Texas 1 Far right violent extremists murdered 3 fast food workers (one Native American and two Hispanic) 5/19/2002 Mesa Arizona 3 Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 6/12/2002 Tucson Arizona 1 Anti-government “Sovereign Citizen” murdered an Ohio police officer 8/2/2002 Massillon Ohio 1 Two white supremacist skinheads murdered a man 8/30/2002 Las Vegas Nevada 1 White supremacist skinhead beat a man to death outside a diner 9/1/2002 St. Louis Missouri 1 White supremacist murdered bisexual man 12/14/2002 Salinas California 1 White supremacist gang murdered a homeless man as part of a gang initiation 3/23/2003 Tacoma Washington 1 Anti-government militiaman shot and killed a Michigan state trooper 7/7/2003 Fremont Michigan 1 White supremacist shot and killed 6 co-workers at Lockheed Martin Plant 7/8/2003 Meridian Mississippi 6 Neo-Nazi killed sex-offender priest 8/23/2003 Shirley Massachusetts 1 Anti-government “constitutionalist” killed 2 in standoff over land 12/8/2003 Abbeville South Carolina 2 White supremacist killed a man while “hunting down Mexicans” 1/9/2004 Dateland Arizona 1 White supremacists murdered two homeless men 4/15/2005 Hingham Massachusetts 2 Six white supremacist inmates beat another prisoner to death 10/14/2005 Kingman Arizona 1 White supremacist skinhead murdered an African American woman 12/16/2005 Mays Landing New Jersey 1 Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 3/23/2006 New Port Richey Florida 1 White supremacist inmate killed his African American cellmate 11/13/2006 Chipley Florida 1 White supremacist murders Hispanic man in convenience store after argument 7/2/2007 Lubbock Texas 1 White supremacist murdered Lubbock, TX police officer 8/15/2007 Brandon Florida 1 Two white supremacists murdered a homeless man 9/3/2007 Reno Nevada 1 Two white supremacists murdered a gay man as gang initiation rite 10/26/2007 Goldsby Oklahoma 1 Skinhead gang murdered an Hispanic man 12/4/2007 Yucaipa California 1 Middle school skinhead student shot and killed gay peer 2/12/2008 Oxnard California 1 White supremacist teens beat a Hispanic man to death 7/12/2008 Shenandoah Pennsylvania 1 Anti-government violent extremist killed 2 at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church 7/27/2008 Knoxville Tennessee 2 White man obsessed with Nazism murdered an African American man and a Hispanic man 8/1/2008 Bristol Pennsylvania 2 White supremacist teens murdered an Ecuadorian immigrant 11/8/2008 Patchogue New York 1 Two anti-government violent extremists planted a bomb inside a bank, killing 2 12/12/2008 Woodburn Oregon 2 Far rightist murdered a homeless man 1/19/2009 Woodstock Illinois 1 White supremacist killed 2 immigrants 1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1 Same perpetrator as previous case in Brockton, MA killed a homeless man later the same day 1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1 Neo-Nazi murdered Wesleyan University Jewish student 5/6/2009 Middleton Connecticut 1 White supremacists murdered 2 immigrants in home invasion 5/30/2009 Arivaca Arizona 2 Anti-government Sovereign Citizen murdered abortion provider Dr. George Tiller 5/31/2009 Wichita Kansas 1 White supremacist killed Holocaust museum guard 6/10/2009 Washington District of Colombia 1 White supremacist and associate killed a child molester 6/30/2009 Carmichael California 1 White supremacist murdered his stepfather to gain “street cred” 7/28/2009 Paradise California 1 White supremacist murdered a convicted sex offender 8/28/2009 N. Palm Springs California 1 Two white supremacist skinheads shoot at interracial couple and killed female 10/3/2009 Phoenix Arizona 1 Anti-government violent extremist flew a small plane into an Austin, TX office building with U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office in it to protest the IRS and the government 2/18/2010 Austin Texas 1 Neo-Nazi killed an African American man 3/29/2010 South Huntington Pennsylvania 1 White supremacist shot and wounded 4 women then killed a man 4/20/2010 Wichita Falls Texas 1 Two Sovereign Citizen members killed two police officers 5/21/2010 West Memphis Arkansas 2 Prison gang white supremacists murdered another inmate for not objecting to having an African American cellmate 3/1/2011 Atlanta Georgia 1 White supremacist teenagers run over and kill an African American man in a motel parking lot 6/26/2011 Jackson Mississippi 1 Two white supremacists murdered a 53-year old African American man 10/4/2011 Eureka California 1 Same perpetrators as previous case in Eureka, CA; perpetrators killed a teenager they thought was Jewish 10/7/2011 Corvallis Oregon 1 Neo-Nazi killed 6 at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin 8/5/2012 Oak Creek Wisconsin 6 Two neo-Nazis and a third associate murdered a local drug-dealer 1/9/2013 Verona Kentucky 1 Anti-government “survivalist” boarded a school bus with a gun and demanded a student be given to him; he then shot and killed the bus driver 1/29/2013 Midland City Alabama 1 Two white supremacists killed a husband and wife because the husband was a sex offender 7/21/2013 Jonesville South Carolina 2 Anti-government extremist kills Transportation Security Administration officer at Los Angeles International Airport 11/1/2013 Los Angeles California 1 White supremacist shot and killed 2 at a Jewish Community Center 4/13/2014 Overland Park Kansas 2 Same perpetrator as previous attack in Overland Park; perpetrator murdered another person at a Jewish retirement center later the same day 4/13/2014 Leawood Kansas 1 Anti-government married couple killed 2 officers during shooting rampage on Las Vegas strip 6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 2 Same perpetrators as previous attack in Las Vegas; perpetrators murdered another person later the same day 6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 1 Anti-government extremist Eric Frein murdered a state trooper. 9/12/2014 White Haven Pennsylvania 1 White supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed 9 African Americans in a shooting at an African American church in Charleston, SC 6/17/2015 Charleston South Carolina 9 Right-wing extremist opened fire and killed 2 young women among patrons during an Amy Schumer movie 7/23/2015 Lafayette Louisiana 2 White supremacist shot and killed 9 at his community college 10/1/2015 Roseburg Oregon 9 Anti-government survivalist extremist killed 3 at Planned Parenthood clinic including a responding police officer 11/27/2015 Colorado Springs Colorado 3 Number of incidents: 62 Total victims: 106 Table 2: Radical Islamist Violent Extremist-Motivated Attacks that Resulted in Fatalities, September 12, 2001 through December 31, 2016, as reported in the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) Summary of ECDB Incident Description Date City State Number of Victim Deaths Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in state of Washington 2/16/2002 Tacoma Washington 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Arizona 3/19/2002 Tucson Arizona 1 Radical Islamist violent extremist killed 2 at Los Angeles International Airport El Al ticket counter 7/4/2002 Los Angeles California 2 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Atlanta, GA 9/21/2002 Atlanta Georgia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Montgomery, AL, 19 hours after attack in Atlanta, GA 9/21/2002 Montgomery Alabama 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack prior to D.C. attacks; shot and killed 1 person in Baton Rouge, LA 9/23/2002 Baton Rouge Louisiana 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/2/2002 Wheaton Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Rockville Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Aspen Hill Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Silver Spring Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Kensington Maryland 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/3/2002 Washington District of Columbia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/9/2002 Manassas Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/11/2002 Spotsylvania County Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/14/2002 Fairfax County Virginia 1 Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attack 10/22/2002 Aspen Hill Maryland 1 Perpetrator kills 1 at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle 7/28/2006 Seattle Washington 1 Perpetrator kills 1 and injures 18 in hit-and-run driving spree in San Francisco and Fremont, CA 8/29/2006 Fremont California 1 Salt Lake City, UT Trolley Square Shooting 2/12/2007 Salt Lake City Utah 5 Perpetrator killed one army solider outside of a military recruiting center in Little Rock, AR 6/1/2009 Little Rock Arkansas 1 Nidal Malik Hasan kills 12 soldiers and 1 civilian at Fort Hood, TX 11/5/2009 Fort Hood Texas 13 Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev helped murder 3 persons four years before Boston bombing 9/11/2011 Waltham Massachusetts 3 Reshad Riddle, a convert to Islam, murdered his father 3/24/2013 Ashtabula Ohio 1 Boston bomber brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing 3 4/15/2013 Boston Massachusetts 3 Tsarnaev brothers shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology security officer 4/18/2013 Cambridge Massachusetts 1 Incident 1 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed a man in a drive by shooting 4/27/2014 Seattle Washington 1 Incident 2 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed 2 men in Seattle leaving a gay club 6/1/2014 Seattle Washington 2 Incident 3 in a series of related murders: perpetrator shot and killed a man in a drive by shooting and killed a college student 6/25/2014 West Orange New Jersey 1 Justin Nojan Sullivan, a convert to Islam, murdered his neighbor 12/18/2014 Morganton North Carolina 1 Perpetrator opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, TN, killing 5 7/16/2015 Chattanooga Tennessee 5 San Bernardino, CA shooting spree: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik shoot up office party, killing 14 and injuring 22 12/2/2015 San Bernardino California 14 Orlando Night Club shooting. Omar Mateen killed 49 6/12/2016 Orlando Florida 49 Number of Incidents: 23 Total Victims: 119 so, the meme is wrong/misleading, but that weren't your concern. definitions is page 28. (edit: weird formatting errors... maybe fixed) HA! Good Fun!

purchased a breville’s polyscience control freak. will be here march 9-14. we got plenty o' stainless steel cookware, so we should be good, but am now contemplating buying a decent carbon steel pan. am a big fan o' made in, but am thinking o' going lodge since we have such a good track record with lodge. most all our impulse buys nowadays is cooking related. is kinda a sickness. HA! Good Fun!