KSDK Wall roundup

This weekend I was sifting through about two hundred comments on minimum wage from people who don't understand economics, and decided to save my sanity for once. So here's some random weirdness I pulled off the KSDK wall.

Sunday was our (hopefully) last shitty winter day, bringing a mixture of snow and ice. I myself used Saturday to get all my errands done so I wouldn't have to go out into miserable weather and driving conditions.

Tim doesn't like those warnings. Get out and shop, and your safety be damned. He's a retailer and needs them dollars. Your car accidents are on you.

Guess who gets spit flavored coffee

Apparently it's now up to news corporations to deliver vaccinations to war torn nations? I'm sure Anderson Cooper can just fly into Pakistan with a bag full of polio juice and not be worried about customs, distribution or corrupt third world governments.

I find it surprising that most people don't understand if it was that easy, we would have fucking done it already.

Yeah, I'm sure it's a major inconvenience to have all those people pour money into your town. Here's a gif explaining what you and your neighbors need to do to the local economy if you want your voice heard.

Yeah, the full stupid name of that bridge is the Stan Musial Veteran's Memorial Bridge and we expect you to use it all the time!

I know people want to jump up and defend veterans because otherwise you're a damn dirty commie, but if there is a veteran out there actually angry the full name isn't being used, they're probably an asshole. Most of us have better things to do, like nurse our drinking habits or have night terrors. Simple stuff.

If you want to support a veteran, give money to a veteran's charity. Don't get all uppity about what people call a stupid bridge in the middle of the country.

Saint Louis attempts to understand murder/suicide, fails miserably.

 Recently two people were found shot to death in Babler State Park in Wildwood. Police have ruled it an apparent murder/suicide of a father and son.

This is a story that doesn't need a comments section. What it SHOULD be filled with are the people who feel the need to let STLToday editors know they are praying for the family. What invariably happens is a clusterfuck people who think their opinions matter. Which would be fine if their opinions weren't absolute shit.

Shelly obviously hasn't visited the north side in a while. They've really improved from WWII era "War Zone" to Korean War "Police Action." No longer is it minute by minute, but often you get five minutes without any war whatsoever!

No one would seriously compare Wildwood to North City, but stop comparing North City to Somalia. Just because you heard about it during a PTA meeting and that one time you drove I-70 from St. Charles and saw massive amounts of industry doesn't mean you know dick about the place.

That said, don't go to North City. Unless you are going to Goody Goody. That's the only place in St. Louis to truly experience Chicken and Waffles. Or Crown Candy. Or the Clements house.

Twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day. Turns out sometimes dealing with a war zone can fuck you up in the head pretty bad. I wouldn't call any of them cowardly because I certainly don't know what they're going through

I would like to know Paul's approved method of suicide. Perhaps we should have a tree mulcher that shoots out into a river so no one has to deal with it. The world will be better off without your cowardly ways!

I have ten bucks that says Paul either knows someone who committed suicide or saw someone else hurting because of it. It's pretty easy to be angry at the person who is dead because they can't defend themselves. It's easier to be angry than it is to understand.

Man up, you pussies. It's just a guy who committed suicide after killing his son in the woods! Obviously it's great that this murderer stopped himself and can't go on any more killing sprees of one. Quit being a little bitch about it.

Could...could someone go check on Deborah's kids for us? Be sure to look in the recently upturned dirt under the porch.

On one hand, Slayer is being unnecessarily facetious, but that's kind of the point of my blog. It's just easier to do it in the comments section than create a website dedicated to it.

I don't know anything about Bengazi, but I do know that CNN has pretty much passed on it as a non story. I don't see any conspiracy here because CNN wouldn't pass up and opportunity to scare old people with unnecessary reporting.

We all applaud you, Carol.

The US Geological Survey are the next on the list to grab your guns.

Lord knows I do love myself a good government conspiracy, especially when it's on that makes no sense at all. It seems the internet is populated by people who have an absolute distrust for the government. Of course, the internet, which is filled with all their favorite forums to discuss lizard popes, was funded, created and currently monitored by the government. I mean, if you were a smart conspiracy theorist, you'd be building a unibomber cabin in the woods right now rather than screaming about the gun stealing robot aliens.

In a story from KMOV, we learn about the United States Geological Survey using helicopters to search for possible mineral deposits in the St. Louis area. They lead off with the most conspiracy laden headline possible, but that's to be expected from websites shamelessly attempting to pull ad clicks instead of report real news.

Speaking of, have you tried Coca-Cola lately? You won't find a better path to refreshing diabetes!

It seems from this thread no one is exactly sure what is going on with the helicopter, but it sure isn't whatever they specifically said it would be. Gold grab? Sure! Of course the government has the biggest gold reserve in the world, but you keep thinking that 14k plated chain or those three bullion with swastikas stamped in them you inherited from grandpa are worth their time.

Man, government conspiracy is my favorite. Crawford county is highly populated? A quarter of it is the Mark Twain national forest. If there is anything to be concerned about, it's the government possibly strip mining part of the state for rare earth metals. Though I bet if the government came with a fat mining rights check, some land owners would change their conspiracy tune really quick.

Everyone hates government spending unless it's being spent on them.

Well, after finding your bible stash, what else do we need to take over the world?

I know you like to think your book as some magical properties, but it's still a book and it isn't showing up on the sensors of our bible seeking missiles.

I guarantee you this isn't going to stop my southern Missouri family from putting dead babies on placards and billboards and waving them around in front of children. I don't know how this correlation happened in their head, but we signed a constitutional law against gay marriage. Your shitty version of Christianity is firmly entrenched, I assure you.

One thing I notice with people who are fairly stupid is their blanket assumption of technology = whatever magic I can dream up. Suddenly we have sensors that can count how many old .22 Springfield rifles you have in a closet?

I'd like a rundown on what people believe technology can actually do. I already have to listen to people clamor about how the NSA is reading their boring texts to their boring friends on a Friday night. Yeah, it's real important to national security that we find out if you and your girlfriend are going to have a night at the bar you always go to or just order a pizza and watch Netflix.

The government doesn't care about you. They want you to buy guns and pay taxes. They want you to buy your stupid safe and burn electricity on the internet and vote for things that don't matter because it keeps this whole mess of a society going. 

No one is impressed by you.

I know I'm now blocking out names, but I want to let you know this post was from a facebook dedicated to prepping. If you don't know what that is, it's when crazy people who can't understand that we have a functioning society and decide to prepare for a war which will plunge us into an apocalyptic wasteland they are sure to survive.

I don't understand the vaseline comment, nor do I think the author of this post knows anything about gathering information about precious metals. As for Afghanistan, we've known about the possible deposits for decades, but there's no easy or cheap way to mine it.

But hey, basic research is for queers and communists.

I've got about 40-60 odds on this being a troll. It's hard for me to believe anyone uses the word "sheeple" unironically. 

Then again, I can't assume people who comment on these stories about FEMA death camps know how to do anything beyond parrot the most frightening things shit out by conservative radio stations.

Unfortunately, you can't declare anything a "no fly zone" since you aren't an independent country. But go ahead and try to break off from the USA. It's worked out so well back in the mid 1800s

Do your secret things inside, but not inside the underground bunker or gun safe. We can count the bullets in there. You should be fine in your shower though. You don't have to close the curtains...

What do you suppose it's like to be this afraid of the government? If I for a moment thought FEMA death camps were being erected in this country, I'd be traveling to Canada and practicing my 'aboots.'

There are real reasons to be pissed off at the American government, and real reasons to dislike the current administration. Gun grabbing and gold stealing are not any of those reasons.