when lawmakers warn looters they will be arrested, its like warning people who leave work without an umbrella that they could get wet. the risk is usually accepted by the mindset. in a just world, when people take advantage of a horrible situation - punishment must be far worse than if they had committed the crime in a non-crisis. the horrible situation dictates that the justice be swift and complete. theres no time for arrests. the warning needs to be: we see you looting, we will shoot you. we'll be back to pick you up later.
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@Frenchi. What myth or urban legends did you believe growing up ?
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@APalm Do you remember a time that you succumbed to peer pressure, or resisted it?
California PAC drops 1.56 million of donor cash to buy 67, 000 free copies and mail them to anyone who donated any amount.
Rigging book sale numbers with political funds. Nice Gavin.
“Racoon penis!”
Yes, raccoons (like many male mammals) have a baculum—a bone in their penis. In raccoons, it’s a curved, slender bone typically 3–5 inches long (sometimes called a “Texas toothpick,” “coon dick,” or “mountain man toothpick” in rural American contexts).
This bone helps provide rigidity during mating. It’s prominent enough that raccoon bacula are commonly collected, cleaned, and sold as novelties, toothpicks, stir sticks for moonshine (to direct the flow), necklaces, or good-luck charms in Southern and Appalachian folk traditions. Some are even used in hoodoo as love or luck amulets.
Legends and or folklore have it that Indians made whistles out of the baculum. Although there is no evidence to support it.
