A Chronicle of the Insurgency, Part 3:
The Art of Misdirection
by Tonio
“How long,” asked Bryan, her chief of staff.
Phillips, the Capitol Police inspector, checked his watch. “Their average response time for us is around four minutes. They always have units staged nearby.”
Tsimpris, the man from the Architect of the Capitol office, checked his phone. “Sunshine just turned onto Constitution. They have this really neat location track…”
There was an awkward pause and the three men looked again toward the corpse seated on the toilet as if they expected some change. Nobody wanted to look, but it somehow seemed disrespectful to not look.
The corpse that had until recently been US Senator Amy Klubuchar had settled backward with the spine against the seat lid. The head had rolled forward and the mouth was slightly agape with the lower jaw and lip sagging, the tongue poking out slightly. The eye sockets were empty and a yellowish pink fluid dripped from the nose. The personal bathroom, outfitted like that in a business hotel room, was dripping with the sewage that had erupted from many toilets in and around the US Capitol.
“What about evidence collection? We have to find out who did this! What if other senators are in danger? Or members of the House? Or the staff and public?”
Phillips checked his phone perfunctorily. “Everything is under control. We are doing a wellness check on every senator and member. The morgue people will collect everything they need from the body. We are taking measures, but quietly so as not to cause a panic.”
“What am I going to tell her husband?”
Phillips’ phone buzzed. “The ambulance is coming through the gate now.”
There was another long, awkward silence, followed by a tap on the door. Phillips cracked the door open and looked out, then nodded to someone outside. A man and a woman in DC FEMS uniforms rolled in a stretcher.
“Do you need to say goodbye,” asked Phillips.
Bryan turned to look at the corpse. “You were cruel, but I’m sorry to see you like this. Goodbye.”
At the word “goodbye” Phillips jammed an injector pen into the side of Bryan’s neck, then expertly broke his fall as he went slack. The DC FEMS crew sprung into action and quickly loaded the semi-conscious body onto the stretcher, strapping it down securely. Phillips patted Bryan’s cheek roughly. “Pleasant dreams, asshole. Enjoy your stay at Saint E’s.” He nodded at the ambulance crew who wheeled the body out.
“Christ, he was tiring,” said Tsimpris. “Your guys tipped off the press, right?”
“Yeah. Let’s hope Chris scores with the WJLA chick, she’s pretty hot.”
“Nobody sucks cock like the DC press.”
Then another knock and the Sunshine Cleaning crew wheeled in a commercial dehumidifier unit. The first team positioned their unit up in far corner, powered it up and left.
The second team didn’t even uncoil the power cable, but opened up their unit to reveal mostly empty space inside. As they unlimbered their equipment, Phillips struck up a conversation with them.
“So, which of you people was this?”
The round-faced crewman with the name patch “Burke” answered. “It wasn’t off-worlders, like us. They are from a different measurement than us all,” he gestured to include everyone in the room.
“Measurement?”
You mean dimension,” asked Tsimpris.
“Yes, that is the word. They are undercooked and dangerous.”
“You mean ‘rare,’” asked Phillips.
“Ah. Normally I’m not the talker. We’re busy today. Hare,” he gestured to the hatchet-faced crewman, “doesn’t speak English.” Hare’s mouth opened slightly and his tongue darted out.
The crew had got a C-shaped bar behind back of the corpse with the ends hooked under the armpits. They stepped out of the bathroom and Hare pulled a remote out of his coveralls. The bar hummed and lifted the corpse off the toilet so it was standing astride the bowl. Then a spherical object about the size of a softball levitated out of the fake dehumidifier and floated into the bathroom and hid behind the door. Burke reached in and pulled the door closed and checked that it was latched. Hare pushed a button and there was a prolonged whoosh from inside the bathroom.
“Fire in the hole,” said Phillips.
“It is a cold mist cleaner,” said Burke. “Plasma-based disinfection makes a body un-re-hatchable, like when you humans ruin good meat.”
“It’s an expression.”
The remote emitted a tone and Burke opened the door. The bathroom was as clean and fresh as a Summer’s eve. Hare worked his remote and the corpse floated out of the room dangling from the gravity-defying device which then lowered the corpse into the interior of the fake dehumidifier unit so it folded into a reclining position with the knees up. The softball floated out of the bathroom and returned to its little hidey hole inside the cabinet. Snakelike things writhed out from within the unit. Some bared sharp metal fangs, others had obscene, pulsing slickery ends. Phillips and Tsimpris were thankful that Burke closed the device before they could see any further indignities inflicted upon the corpse.
“So, when will she be ready,” asked Phillips.
“Monday, maybe Tuesday.”
“This is kind of a rush job.”
“You all say that.”
Burke and Hare rolled the unit out, Burke loudly complaining “fucking piece of shit unit, goddamn cheap company” and banging on the unit for good measure.
Phillips and Tsimpris waited for the door to close. “Beautiful,” said Tsimpris, enacting a silent golf clap.
“Haven’t seen acting that good since I took the Missus to Arena Stage for our anniversary. This calls for a toast.” Phillips approached the desk and stroked his chin. “Ima say she’s a back behind the files gal.” He opened the lower right drawer of the desk all the way and fished around the innermost part. “Bingo.”
“Crown Royal. Classy.”
“The deep state finally has a US Senator again,” said Phillips taking a taking a good pull from the bottle and passing it on to Tsimpris.
“Senator Byrd brought a new meaning to the term ‘Grand Dragon.’ Shame we couldn’t keep up the masquerade longer.”
A Note to My Loyal Readers: Do not despair my little zilthrakii, “The Glibening” will resume when least needed and most expected.
I, umm, I mean, just, umm, WOW!
A little Agile Cyborg, a dash of SugarFree and a helping of Mr Lizard. Nicely done.
I’m not sure what I just read but I’m not going to re-read it to find out. I’m just glad this was not the evening read.
Meant to be funny, Tonio, sorry if I missed the point
I wasn’t offended. It is generally assumed her that comments like yours and Spud’s, any mention of vomiting, etc, are meant good-naturedly.
Oh, believe me, that was high praise.
Spare a thought for Pie.
Well that was fun. In a slow motion train wreck involving a short bus full of special needs children sort of way…
There are other types of short buses?
Some are medical transports for dementia addled elderly.
Do I need to remember the first two parts to read this?
Not really.
Can I say I want more? Is that allowed?
Est verboten. Return to your assigned gulag, wrecker.
“Nobody sucks cock like the DC press.”
I’ll be off taking a cold mist…
Three times and I still have questions. 10/10
Thanks for the laughs, Tonio!
Oh, and tangentially related.
Thanks. Nice.
This is a good way for this site to be placed on a list. I wonder how many lists glibs is on now?
Does this mean we’ll get invited to the cocktail parties that matter?
The finest in the land.
Not the cocktails we’d prefer.
Sasquatch erotica fans, we could be Congress-critters.
“The bathroom was as clean and fresh as a Summer’s eve.”
*strongly narrows gaze*
Whoever is responsible for sharepoint deserves levels of pain I lack the vocabulary to describe.
See what happens when you dis Lotus Notes?
I never said anything about Lotus Notes.
I’ve also never used Lotus Notes.
You should consider yourself lucky. Notes is worse than the tentacly horrors in my stories. [shudders]
shoggoth.nsf
Tekeli-li. Tekeli-li.
*nods in agreement*
Are you using the library functionality or the wiki functionality? (joke’s on me, it’s all library functionality) ??
I’m not using it. The agency Internal website is on it.
It was a phenominally stupid choice.
I used my Javascript skills from coding Monocle to disable literally everything on SharePoint. I put a little button in the corner in case I need to edit the page, but everything else is gone and I designed our pages from scratch.
It’s still slow as a dog and worthless outside of static information.
Ours operated fine but we couldn’t keep an “expert” employed long enough to make any additions or fixes to it. So we just scratched our heads and limped along with it until it was time to retire it. I pulled the short straw and had to figure out how to get all the data off it. LOL right.
Well, this is going to be hilarious if true: Cohen might have perjured himself.
Again?
Own Goal!
Over his insistence that he neither sought nor wanted a spot in the administration?
There is no might. He was told to tell the lies that would get the proggie morons all excited about an impeachment that will never happen in return for the promise of leniency and not having a dude named Bubba make him their bitch when he goes to prison.
Precisely. He was heavily prepped by a coven of Dem officials and operatives. He definitely lied about not wanting a spot in the administration. Because I don’t follow these palace intrigue kabuki shows closely, I’m not sure what else he lied about, but I would be shocked if he only lied the one time. Hell, the man probably can’t order coffee without telling a lie.
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
— Kevin McCarthy’s sister Mary, on Lillian Hellman
Source or link?
I found this in extremely bad taste. Would read again.
^ONE OF US! ONE OF US!^
OT:As the Market Compresses, Dealers Look to Used Cars to Save Them
This is an interesting look at why buying new may make more sense than used. I know people in the business and have heard this exact argument. This is hilarious:
What used cars?
Inventories are improving, but then there’s this:
He forgot the 700,000 vehicles that were fucking destroyed.
Average of over $20k? My New C-Max was only $25k. I bought new because I could and I wanted the experience of owning a new car. (okay, it had 173 miles on it, but that was likely from test drives)
People returning $40K cars that were leased for 2 years.
Yes, that’s the point. Check out used pricing on many models and it absolutely makes more sense to buy new. Before I got the truck, I was looking at Toyota 4 Runners. The damn things hold their value so well it was stupid to buy used, since I tend to keep vehicles for a long, long time.
The one place where this doesn’t hold true is high end luxury vehicles, which depreciate like crazy. Unfortunately they can chew up an amazing amount of money in the shop.
That’s all they paid you to drive it? I’d have held out for at least 36k to have to drive one of those daily.
Right up there with dumping milk down the drain, plowing under perfectly good crops, and slaughtering livestock (but not for consumption).
GREEN DEAL!
Owning cars is a bum deal when high speed rail everywhere I have to be is only <12 years away.
A rep from my dealer called me at work a week or so ago to see if I was in the market for a new car. I said no. The loan on my current vehicle is paid off in 2 years. We’ll be in after that to replace the 2009 Forester that is fully paid for and running spectacularly (maybe we’ll go in then, maybe not). As for the Xterra that I am still paying off — well, I kept the last one 12 years before I bought a new one. I don’t expect to buy a replacement for another 9 or 10 years.
“My car still passes inspection and gets me from A to B. Why would I buy another?”
Maybe you car Glibs can answer a question – why do they still use engine heat for the defroster on hybrids when the car will shut off the gas engine of an unmoving car – say, one that’s trying to defrost the windows so the driver can see?
My guess is the engine is still hot even if it isn’t running while an electric defroster will run down the batteries if the engine isn’t running.
But the problem is, I most need the defroster when the engine is cold – ie, I just dug the car out of last night’s snowfall and it hasn’t run for hours.
So the conundrum is, I can’t move until I can see. I can’t see until the defroster warms up. the defroster can’t get warm until the engine has been running. And it shuts off the engine because the car isn’t moving.
This is the answer.
Have those.
The side view mirror covers are more important than the windshield cover.
Overnight my car sits in the garage, so it’s generally safe from the worst frosts. I do however have the heated side mirrors and washer lines. I’m not sure how much use those would be for constant -20F weather though.
Frost is easy.
Freezing rain is a bitch to get off side view mirrors.
Freezing rain and fog are the devil. Thankfully my side mirrors have enough overhang to protect them from the worst of it, and they are heated, so I can melt off the ice without trying to scrape the little bastards.
I disagree. This is the answer.
So the automotive engineers missed a use-case. They can fix that in V1.1.2.1.4.5.6c scheduled two years from now.
You, on the other hand, actually bought a hybrid?
It was comfortable to drive.
The other cars were less so.
My husband wants one. It’s a moot point, because we aren’t going to be getting a used car anytime soon, but I am opposed.
Sadly, I had locked in the “I don’t care what we buy within reason” because I was too lazy to help him narrow down choices, so I can’t in all honesty renege on that.
*new* car
We’ll be replacing the transmission in my truck and driving my beater into the ground before we get even a used car.
Any ICE has to run for a while (in etxreme cold) to generate enough heat for a defroster to be effective.
In a hybrid, if the engine heat is used for the defroster, some of the heat is going to the cabin which means the engine isn’t as hot which means it shuldn’t shut off that quickly.
First generation Prius had issues like you describe, subsequent generations did not. Maybe Ford has programmers in the UAW?
Well, the C-Max was unfortunately made in Detroit.
Maybe this will help.
http://www.fordmanuals.org/page-778.html
It could be that for defrosting it wants the AC on.
Have you tried calling the help desk? /sarcasm
That looks like a different climate control system from mine, but if it follows a common design philosophy, maybe.
What year is yours?
2016 model year.
That’s a lame looking set of controls. One would think in the winter you’d want defrost AND floor heat at the same time. Maybe they farmed that out to Tata.
Huhm… my Ford Mustang can defrost and do floor heat at the same time. Or any combination you want, though why people would want hot air shooting into their face, I have no idea.
The buttons toggle only the vent set in question, so I think it can direct the lukewarm air at multiple destinations, but people might still be reading the old toggles of “This is all the air will go to” from the earlier systems
I had meant to address this earlier. The engine isn’t turning off for being to warm, it’s turning off “to save fuel”, because the car assumes when you start moving, it can use the electric motor, and start up the gas as needed. I’ve had it cut out while waiting at red lights and freak out the passengers who thought the car had stalled.
That’s a pretty comical design flaw, although I’m sure it doesn’t seem humorous if you’re the one who has to deal with it.
Maybe the assumption is that you’ll drive behind someone with a nice, warm exhaust? Just use the Force for the first few minutes.
Piggy won’t go over the stile and I shan’t get home tonight.
Late to the answer, but there are electric heaters being used on EV, HEV, and ICE engines to allow fast defrost and to provide heat when there is no ICE. They are called PTC heaters.
https://www.eenewsautomotive.com/news/ptc-heater-electric-and-hybrid-vehicles-allows-dual-temp-zones
Diesel trucks use them as well since it takes a good long time to warm one up.
Lol
House Oversight Committee Republicans on Thursday referred ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen to the Justice Department for alleged perjury, claiming he lied during sworn testimony before the panel a day earlier about a number of issues including his ambitions to work in the Trump administration and contracts with foreign entities.
Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., penned a letter Thursday to newly sworn-in Attorney General William Barr, citing evidence that Cohen “committed perjury” during his hearing before the committee on Wednesday.
“We write to refer significant evidence that Michael D. Cohen committed perjury and knowingly made false statements during his testimony before an Oversight and Reform Committee hearing,” they wrote. “While testifying under oath, Mr. Cohen made what appear to be numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the Justice Department in United States v. Cohen.”
They added: “Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the Committee at times was in direct contradiction to assertions contained in pleadings authored by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY.) There are other instances in which Mr. Cohen’s statements to the Committee were immediately contradicted by witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the subject matter.”
The letter said, in part, that Cohen’s testimony “was a spectacular and brazen attempt to knowing and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to numerous material facts.” They claimed the testimony included “intentionally false statements designed to make himself look better on a national stage,” adding: “Mr. Cohen’s prior conviction for lying to Congress merits a heightened suspicion that he has yet again testified falsely before Congress.”
The Ranking Member also averred that Trump is not, in fact, a poopy-head.
direct contradiction to assertions contained in pleadings authored by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY.)
Sweet. So now the DOJ has to either admit their pleadings were bullshit, or prosecute Cohen for perjury again.
prosecute Cohen for perjury again.
Then maybe in 6 months they can bring him back again for round 3.
“I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
/vomits
https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-breathes-sigh-of-relief-as-ocasio-cortez-comes-out-against-having-children
The nation breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday while watching footage in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to come out against the concept of reproducing.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-ends-standoff-after-police-offer-him-pizza
Not sure you can get much more Florida than that
Cosplay? Yeah, he had it coming.
Why do you hate cosplay? I admit we could use some gatekeeping to prevent the wrong folk from dressing up, but the right ones add happiness to our drab lives.
haahaha…..that was a weird autocorrect.
Icke, that was nasty
“Senator Byrd brought a new meaning to the term ‘Grand Dragon.’ Shame we couldn’t keep up the masquerade longer.”
This explains so much.
If I was him, I would use the Clinton defense.
How Patriots owner Robert Kraft could get off in prostitution case
I thought “getting off” was the problem in the first place.
22 positions in a one night stand….
Prince is lucky he’s dead. The “let a woman be a woman and a man be a man” line would totally get him raked over the coals in today’s stupid environment.
WTF????
Where are the tire tracks leaving that space? Did the car get airlifted out of the parking lot?
I see…
The HOA should be dissolved.
But then how would we ensure that all houses were painted to match the approved color palette?
The HOA should be dissolved.
In acid, right?
The agreement, or the people?
A: Yes.
Sick fuck. If you hear a dog whistle, you might be a dog.
FLORIDA MAN!!!!
You are 22 minutes late to that party. No pizza for you.
He seems to love pizza and whooping up on old folks but I could forgive him if Coldplay wasn’t involved. They suck!
Luke Perry suffers massive stroke and he’s only 52. *looks at calendar and muses about mortality*
Getting clots lodged in blood vessels is a risk for that age range. Don’t know much about the guy or his health in general.
My cousin died at 47 because of a blood clot (pulmonary embolism, maybe? stroke? I can’t remember). Her mother (my aunt) had a stroke a couple of years ago, but she’s my mother’s age so I didn’t really freak out then.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Thanks. I’ve just been freaking out since I hit 50.
Meh – don’t worry about things outside your circle of control. Eat and live as healthy as you can but also enjoy life. I’m knocking on 50 in not so much time and I can run faster and lift more than I could when I was 18.
Of course the recovery times are longer.
It will only get worse Mojeaux. But don’t worry. Nobody gets out of this life alive.
Factor V Leiden runs in my family. Killed my grandmother, almost killed my mom. I worry about it all the time, especially the chance that one of my kids might carry it too.
I hear you.
That said, when it is my time, I hope to go quickly.
Yikes.
I inherited that from my father as well. I’ve been told there’s nothing really you can do about it until there’s trauma. After that blood thinners.
Had a blood clot in my leg at 41, had ran 7 miles the day before. Was my graduation day from college, I made the ceremony, went home and to the doc the next day, stayed home for a week with leg elevated and on some kind of blood thinner.
Weird – Luke Perry now looks like one of my neighbors: the guy who does the neighorhood pool maintenance and ground work
That could _be_ Luke Perry.
Thank you for the Burke & Hare reference.
All the Rebus-reading Glibs appreciate it, I’m sure.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
EF really likes his jazz albums, he was was great pianist and a conductor. RIP Andre
And a bunch of movie scores.
If this pic doesn’t make it into the regular cat ass rotation, I’m cancelling my subscription!
OT. Arguing with a guy about guns and after pointing out that the most violent cities are run by democrats, he said that its the states that set the gun laws and some of the safer states as far as gun violence are the ones with the strictest gun laws. Have i painted myself into a corner?
Negative. Most states allow city specific laws. And are they arguing that Illinois, New York, and California states have loose gun laws?
No he’s arguing that states with giant violent Democrat cities don’t look so bad when you lump all the Republican areas of the state into the aggregate crime stats.
If the laws are more restrictive in the cities then the states (which I believe is the case for most of them), that disproves that the laws make it safer.
I cant find anything that says the cities can have different/stricter laws than the state.
Here’s a quick proof. Right from New York City’s government page.
Thanks so much guys.
It’s even more concentrated than that.
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/
Basically, if you throw a dart at a list of American counties, you have a slightly better than even chance of hitting a county that didn’t have a murder last year.
Even in high crime cities, murders don’t happen everywhere. The map of Chicago in that link is divided into 77 neighborhoods. 23 of them had no murders. Another 40 had 1-10 murders in the year.
The vast majority of murders in this country are young men, mostly black, shooting each other in the streets because of drug related bullshit. The single most effective way to lower the number of murders would be to legalize drugs.
Hes saying New York and California are low on the list of states with gun violence and the strictest laws.
He was using this.https://lawcenter.giffords.org/scorecard/
Hmm, I wonder if they’re biased or anything.
I’m going off this table where NY and CA certainly aren’t utopian.
That table indicates that the state with the highest rate of gun ownership (Alaska – red state) has essentially the same level of gun homicide as the state with the lowest rate of gun ownership (Delaware – blue state).
Eyeballing the data, I see no correlations. Idaho is up there with AK in ownership, but is really low on murder rates.
I notice they left DC off that list. I also notice that they’re using Gun Deaths, which I’m willing to wager includes suicide. Ask for a comparison of gun laws and violent crime rates.
It most assuredly includes suicide: the average rate on their gun deaths list is 11.9/100K, while the total homicide rate (guns+all others) is 5.4/100K.
I can’t tell from that page but if “gun deaths” include suicides then this may be an apples to oranges comparison.
Focusing on “gun violence” is him stealing a base. Places with more access to guns have a higher portion of their violence committed with guns. This doesn’t mean that taking the guns away ends the violence, it just shifts it to different means. It is possible for one place to have more gun violence but less total violence than another.
he said that its the states that set the gun laws
They do set gun laws, and cities are welcome, in most states, to make more stringent laws. Trashyfact rates that statement as “mostly false”.
some of the safer states as far as gun violence are the ones with the strictest gun laws
By raw look at the data, the per capita gun violence rate is directly correlated to number and size of big cities in the state. District of Columbia is the runaway winner of most violent because it’s 100% big city. States like Tennessee and Missouri with multiple metropolitan areas are higher in violence. States with huge metro areas (NY, ill) are higher on the list. Small and empty states are relatively gun violence free. Vermont, NDak, NH, etc.
He’s right that some of the safer states have strict gun laws, but wrong in the implication that they all do – some of the most violent states have strict gun laws as well. The thing is, there’s no correlation, positive or negative, between gun laws and safety.
Top 5 Safe/Dangerous states (as measured by homicide rate):
Dangerous: Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, Maryland, Arkansas
Safe: New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island, Idaho
I see pro-gun and anti-gun states in both those lists.
Hes claiming all red states have high rates of gun deaths while some democrat run ones dont.
Yep, he’s a liar. Utah has a lower homicide rate than CA; MD and MS have comparable homicide rates, but not similar partisan control.
Yeah, tell him to filter out good shoots and suicides and get back to you. Or better, just tell him to take your guns from your cold dead hands, because it’s not gonna go down any other way.
couple points:
1. don’t argue total violence gun-control supporters love to lump suicides with homicide
2. firearm homicide rates at the state level can be found at Wiki
be sure to use the per capita firearm murder rate. Maryland is 48th with 5.1 firearm murders per capita, PA is 41, CA is 39, IL is 29, NY is 24th with 2.7 per capita.
there appears to be zero correlation between gun laws and gun firearm homicide rate. i would think the same applies to firearm suicide rate considering these two studies from rabid anti-gunners JHU/Bloomberg and UC Davis:
We found no evidence of an association between the repeal of comprehensive background check policies and firearm homicide and suicide rates in Indiana and Tennessee.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29613872
CBC [comprehensive background checks] and MVP [misdemeanor violence prohibition] policies were not associated with changes in firearm suicide or homicide.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047279718306161
First off, in all likelihood he is arguing in bad faith and you are really just wasting your time (or sharpening your claws). The use of a rabid anti-gun website rather than a neutral statistics provider is a tip. Ask him if he’d accept evidence from you if it was an NRA link.
According to this chart based on Census and FBI 2015 data, the following states had lower gun murder rates than California:
Hawaii 1,425,157 19 19 4 45.1 1.3 1.3 0.3
New Hampshire 1,330,111 14 14 8 14.4 1.1 1.1 0.6
Oregon 4,024,634 99 71 34 26.6 2.5 1.8 0.8
Rhode Island 1,055,607 29 27 10 5.8 2.7 2.6 0.9
Utah 2,990,632 54 54 34 31.9 1.8 1.8 1.1
Maine 1,329,453 23 23 16 22.6 1.7 1.7 1.2
Massachusetts 6,784,240 128 126 81 22.6 1.9 1.9 1.2
North Dakota 756,835 21 17 9 47.9 2.8 2.2 1.2
Vermont 626,088 10 10 8 28.8 1.6 1.6 1.3
Minnesota 5,482,435 133 133 79 36.7 2.4 2.4 1.4
South Dakota 857,919 32 27 12 35.0 3.7 3.1 1.4
Idaho 1,652,828 32 30 24 56.9 1.9 1.8 1.5
Iowa 3,121,997 72 72 49 33.8 2.3 2.3 1.6
West Virginia 1,841,053 70 57 30 54.2 3.8 3.1 1.6
Wyoming 586,107 16 16 10 53.8 2.7 2.7 1.7
Montana 1,032,073 36 36 18 52.3 3.5 3.5 1.7
New York 19,747,183 609 611 383 10.3 3.1 3.1 1.9
Washington 7,160,290 211 209 141 27.7 2.9 2.9 2.0
Connecticut 3,584,730 117 107 73 16.6 3.3 3.0 2.0
Colorado 5,448,819 176 176 115 34.3 3.2 3.2 2.1
Nebraska 1,893,765 62 61 43 19.8 3.3 3.2 2.3
Arizona 6,817,565 309 278 171 32.3 4.5 4.1 2.5
Ohio 11,605,090 500 480 316 19.6 4.3 4.1 2.7
New Mexico 2,080,328 117 94 56 49.9 5.6 4.5 2.7
New Jersey 8,935,421 363 353 255 11.3 4.1 4.0 2.9
Wisconsin 5,767,891 240 238 170 34.7 4.2 4.1 2.9
Kansas 2,906,721 128 125 91 32.2 4.4 4.3 3.1
Indiana 6,612,768 373 272 209 33.8 5.6 4.1 3.2
Kentucky 4,424,611 209 209 141 42.4 4.7 4.7 3.2
Virginia 8,367,587 383 383 275 29.3 4.6 4.6 3.3
Texas 27,429,639 1,316 1,276 906 35.7 4.8 4.7 3.3
Thanks again guys. Im still learning.
Oh My.
I’ve mentioned several times here – what’s worse someone wrote this or that I enjoyed it.
In a similar vein does this place attract people that write this sort of …material.. or does frequenting this place turn otherwise normal people into folks that write like this.
Not that I’m implying that Tonio et al aren’t normal. I didn’t mean that at all.
Your question reminds me of one of the greatest Far Side cartoons: two mutant scientists handing a beaker to a normal human in a lab coat, with the caption “scientific peer pressure”.
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