THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT!
SEA SMITH TELL OLD HOOMAN THAT HAVE CANDY TO STAY WITH NPR LADY HOOMAN, HE GET LINKS! HE NEED SET RECORD STRIAGHT. HE NOT FAULT FOR SUBMARINE SINK. HE VERY BUSY, HELP UN! YOU NOT KNOW SEA SMITH VERY BIG INTERNATIONAL DEAL? HE SURE YOU LOOK, FIND SEA SMITH THERE SOMEWHERE.
NOW WE CLEAR ON NO SEA SMITH FAULT, HE GIVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS;
- SEA SMITH WAIT, CANADIANA ASK HE FOR HELP? SEA SMITH VERY GOOD DIVE, BRING THING UP. WILL ONLY RAPE SUB PARTS A LITTLE. BY A LITTLE, MEAN A LOT.
- SEA SMITH HAVE QUESTION FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMAN CALLED OWNBESTENEMY… THIS REAL PROBLEM? SEA SMITH HOPE NOT…HE BE BUSY WITH SUBMARINE, HE HAVE NO TIME FIND AIRPLANE SPLASH IN OCEAN!
- SEA SMITH LET COUSIN STEVE SMITH COMMENT ON LAW THING….HE PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER! MANY FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMAN ALSO LAWYER – WHAT THEM THINK?
SEA SMITH THINK HE HAVE GIVE MUSIC, RIGHT?
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
The first two links are currently the same….
SEA SMITH MAKE SURE YOU LOOK, REALIZE HE BROKERING MANY BACK DOOR DEALS FOR UN SHIPMENTS.
AND BY “BACK DOOR” MEAN….
I had forgotten about the 5G/altimeter dustup. The airlines were trying to get the cell providers to pay for new equipment, but the problem is that the old equipment was designed with no consideration for future deployments in adjacent bands.
Guess it didn’t go the airlines way.
And yes, it is an actual issue, although I’m not certain how severe it is. Probably a problem in the edges of operational conditions.
And just like that, it’s over.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-blasts-wagner-treason-betrayal-clashes-erupt-southern-russia
I can hear Anne Applebaum crying into her appletini from here.
Well, our closet Sex and the City fan just outed himself….
More serious response: I think he’s nuts to take it once he made his shot. His “exile” is almost certainly going to end with a surprise defenestration or toxic cocktail — Putin doesn’t pussyfoot around. Might as well have gone for it all the way once you were in the open.
I think Prighozin just lost it. He was making demonstrably false claims about the frontlines and was becoming more and more erratic. It’s perfectly possible that he was also being “encouraged” by interested parties.
I’m surprised they’re going to let him live as long as they will, but the Kremlin probably wants to keep the Wagner Group troops settled for the moment.
Worth reading, although events have clearly overtaken some of the main blog post.
Simplicius has some more detail on the various players involved. The whole thing reads like a Russian gang war.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/special-report-emergency-situation
Some kind of crazy Eastern European version of Survivor? Prigozhin ended up getting voted off the island.
Some people like to be abused…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bregrets-there-are-few
SEA SMITH MENTION THIS TO COUSIN STEVE — ALWAYS LOOKING TO GO HIKING WITH LIMEYS WHO LIKE TAKING IT UP THE ASS.
STEVE SMITH PLAY NICE WITH THEM, PUT ON BERET AND SMOKE BAD CIGARETTE. OR TALK ABOUT WURST AND HAIRY GYMNASTS. THEIR CALL, HE NOT CARE.
STEVE CALL DISTANT COUSIN SQUASHOLIGER SMITH TO SEE IF HE WANT TO JOIN IN ON FUN
Help us, unaccountable elitocracy – you’re our only hope!
Why are there regrets?
I expect that’s because of the garbage economy in the UK right now.
It does undermine the hysteria about this, though, if they can just change their mind and rejoin.
And because Whitehall has done everything they can to sabotage Brexit.
Exactly
Yes, Glibister.
There was a good piece in Unherd about the real failure of Brexit, namely that the elites of the UK, no matter the party, are of the same mindset as the EU, and thus cannot really understand what the whole thing was about and what needs to be done to achieve real democracy. The exact same thing can be said about the US political class and our problem.
https://unherd.com/2023/06/brexit-has-stumped-our-zombie-elites/
Forgot to add, the reason why they love the EU is that it gave them someone to blame, as opposed to themselves.
It’s about separating themselves from the icky people and it’s never been anything but that. If it weren’t for the fact that they need the icky people to feel superior, they’d just as soon we all die in a fire.
Had enough of that back in ’77, SEA SMITH? (Hat tip to whatever Glib ref’d the movie first a couple of days back… that’s actually my favorite of the Airport series… mainly because I think it was the one I saw first – and the “wife sees her husband’s body float by” sticks with you).
The Concorde: Airport ’79 is probably my favorite, just because it’s so hilariously bad.
And this is the theme music for the OceanGate Titan.
Gee, that headlines just a wee bit deceptive – makes it sound as if they’ll be just hunky dory to take off. They just can’t come back down again. #ATCpracticaljokes
If allowed to take off, they will eventually land one way or another, yeah.
This should be appropriate for a SEA SMITH post.
The disappearing beachMore than $2.6 billion has been spent dumping sand onto the Jersey Shore. Was it worth it?
Remember Betteridge’s law of headlines.
What a waste of both Federal and State money. Although thank you all for keeping the beach at our family shore property intact. Although I suppose better NJ than the Ukraine. It has modestly less corruption.
“ It has modestly less corruption.”
*citation needed *
What’s the metric (or English) unit for corruption? Big Guy/road*mile ?
In most places you can’t pull out a wad of cash and ask the cop if you can take care of the fine right now.
Where is all that sand going?
https://newjersey.news12.com/ebbs-and-flows-new-jersey-beach-replenishment
“But the more sand they pump to the south, the more it flows along natural currents to the north, where the beaches of Sandy Hook get bigger and bigger. These beaches now rival Wildwood as the widest in New Jersey. In places like this, they’re getting too big.”
So, the migration of sand from south to north is a natural process which has been going on forever. Good luck changing that. And you think you can manipulate climate by burning less fossil fuel.
The proper term is “undocumented sand”.
Dreamer sand.
Wonderful. Who doesn’t want hike 1/2 a mile on the beach to get to the ocean.
Meanwhile I imagine parts of Ocean City having the ocean at the steps off the boardwalk at high tide.
“Meanwhile I imagine parts of Ocean City having the ocean at the steps off the boardwalk at high tide.”
Works for me. Mrs. Patzer still ain’t walking so good, the closer the better.
Be careful of unarrestable teens.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ocean-city-beach-closing-teen-bans-underage-drinking-20230530.html
Assholes. Late evening is the best time to walk along the shore. Too bad they can’t just arrest the idiots who are actually breaking existing laws.
We really are reliving the Carter years.
Yup, and it’s all entirely on purpose.
And after Trenton makes people stop coming to the shore it will find it has “no choice” but to subsidize tourism rather than fix the issue.
1am curfew for minors?? Wtf?
Gee, I wonder what closing bathrooms 10 will do?
That’s how it was 60 years ago!
Mornin’, reprobates.
Canadian safety officials on Friday opened an investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, raising questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions
Fuck off, slavers. No one was forced to sign up for this. They chose to take a (IMHO) stupid risk and paid the price. I feel badly for the families and loved ones of the victims, and it’s a real tragedy that the 19 yr old kid felt he had to do this to please his dad, but life is not and cannot be made to be free of risk. Where would we be if 19th century nannies banned further experimentation on ICEs after he nearly blew himself up?
I think Ukrainian navy seals did it.
We’ll never know. The footage of beach balls in the vicinity of the wreck has been scrubbed from the internet.
There’s an audio tape circulating of barking sounds though.
It was killer whales, man…..
I thought those were STEVE SMITH’S balls.
Talkin’ bout this guy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Well, all those buggy whip makers wouldn’t have been put out of work! Didja ever think about that??
Mornin’, GT!
Well, all those buggy whip makers wouldn’t have been put out of work!
Not really. Buggy whips are still quite useful in non-transportation related applications.
Go on…
I prefer paddles.
SEA SMITH READY TO HELP WITH PADDLES…. OARS… BATTLESHIP RUDDERS IF THAT YOUR KINK.
WATER FINE… COME ON IN!
Relevant
OK, then…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM
Without autos? You’re going to get the watermelons hard.
Evidentially Kennedy’s vaccine squeamishness has little to do with putting needles in his body.
Judicial coup
What we are seeing now on the Supreme Court is a bloc of justices receptive to conservative social movements on key legal issues, and that raises the risk of judge-driven oligarchy: the recalibration of constitutional law for the benefit of the few over the interests of the many. When that bloc has stuck together and a movement mindset has prevailed, this development has already yielded an unprecedented Second Amendment ruling that freezes policymaking authority over dangerous weapons at American life circa 1868. The same majority is responsible for the Dobbs decision, which leaves the federal constitutional rights of pregnant people over their own bodies to that which existed in the late 19th century — which is to say, no rights at all.
Neither ruling was popular with a majority of Americans, and neither seems to be an accident. Instead, both raise the prospect of the nation’s highest court closely aligning with, and acting in tandem with, movements on the political right.
The Supreme Court must be done away with, before it’s too late.
“Why, next thing they’ll say is that the Constitution was written to preserve the rights of the minority (down to the individual) from the likely tyranny of the majority when the states granted the Federal government powers. As if we aren’t a mob rule *cough* representative democracy! Harumph, harumph!”
And by conservative social movements we actually mean just getting rid of a bullshit ruling where the courts decided a right to privacy meant a universal right to abortion.
But not a right to privacy for anything the left didn’t like.
All those people in prison for murder. All they had to do was murder in private and they’d be free.
I guess one hundred years of “acting in tandem with” the hard left wasn’t enough.
unprecedented Second Amendment ruling
Meaning they read the constitution.
pregnant people
Aka “women.” You’re opinion is wrong and unserious.
Neither ruling was popular with a majority of Americans
Irrelevant. But you know that.
Show me a real coup.
Substantively, Dobbs codified a conservative grassroots version of the past. Despite their professed neutrality, the members of the majority rejected the possibility that the right to abortion could be deeply rooted in the nation’s history and tradition, despite evidence to the contrary and notwithstanding the consensus of leading historians in the academy. Instead, the opinion asserted that “abortion had long been a crime in every state.” To support its judgment and narrative, the court relied exclusively on a trio of scholars whose only historical work addressed the problems with Roe itself, scholars who held key roles in grassroots anti-abortion groups or attended events on reversing Roe hosted by leading anti-abortion organizations.
Dobbs also echoed movement arguments in brushing aside the importance of adhering to precedent. A technocratic judge would have cared about what the elimination of a right in this context would do to the medical profession, while a preservationist would have worried about the risk to vulnerable women or how citizens perceive the rule of law. Indeed, Chief Justice John Roberts, who has sometimes behaved as a preservationist, wrote that he would have preferred to continue chipping away at Roe without overruling it completely.
Listening to the wrong experts. Overturning the wrong precedents. Doing stuff we disagree with.
lolwut
Seek help, Politico.
importance of adhering to precedent
Precedent, often, is assho.
5G sucks big giant donky cock.
That is all.
Posting from church again? 😁
I’ve only been to church once since the WuFlu started. I should rectify that.
I still don’t use it. 4G is plenty fast for my old phone.
I have a flip phone. It makes phone calls.
I wish I could have kept my 4G because my mom was bitching about her new phone and 5G, but I had also gotten a new phone that won’t let me roll back to 4G.
5G lets me work without having to run a cable across the living room 🙂
Truly, a great time to be alive.
It is fantastic for that. And gives you work location freedom when you get a 5G modem. My phone still works plenty fine, so I will not replace it.
Welp, my 5G works as a hotspot about as well as it works as a phone, texter, interneter, and tweeter, which is to say, not as well as 4G.
My WFH computer has to be connected to the router by Ethernet cable.
“‘Most frightening thing I have seen in my life:’ Worshippers outraged as Neo-Nazis wave swastika flags outside Georgia synagogue – and police refuse to intervene because it is ‘free speech'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12231125/Most-frightening-thing-seen-life-Neo-Nazis-wave-swastikas-Georgia-synagogue.html
Actual neo-nazis?
A dozen? Ignore the idiots.
It’s a group of leftists. The DeSantis ’24 sign is the tell. These cuntes are probably also, “all in for Yougnkin.”
I called it last time. Also, didn’t DeSantis pass one of those stupid “hate crime” laws in Israel? He should be going after them now like the keystone cops.
That’s a photo from the Disneyland protest.
“Woke Reddit moderators say they’ll BAN any users who misgender non-binary And Just Like That character Che Diaz”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12230287/Reddit-moderators-say-theyll-BAN-users-misgender-Just-Like-character-Che-Diaz.html
Non-binary is bullshit.
Oh how terrible.
01100010 01110101 01101100 01101100 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100
This also is a doctor.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1672351154288705536
I don’t need no doctor.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSyrf-FYKVE
Yeah, that’s a no from me dawg.
This shit is soooo tiresome.
One would think a doctor would understand basic human biology.
Maybe it’s a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrists, surgeons and cardiologists all go to the same medical schools, and dissect human cadavers their first year. A psychiatrist knows the same human biology as any other physician.
I know. Please pardon my lame attempt at humor.
Okay, so I wanted to say this to the Glib docs, you and Contrarian P and whoever I’ve missed:
Lately through my nightly deglovings (I’m a medical transcriptionist on the side and have been for 20 years), I have come to appreciate the depth of knowledge that you all have and the millennia of research behind it all. I got to thinking about this just with my latest contract because I started doing an oncologist’s dictation, and the intricacy of oncology got me mind-boggled.
I also did some palliative care and I swear those people are doing God’s work.
So, I have been critical of doctors in the past as being glorified mechanics (years of doing ortho), and I wanted to recant (some of) it.
Sex is determined at conception, not birth. She doesn’t understand basic biology.
These people seem to have a tendency to stick their faces right up in the camera and have a smug, condescending smile. It’s kind of screaming “I’m crazy and don’t you forget it.”
“ The Smugly emoji illustrates a distinctive condescending facial expression of smugness and ugliness, often seen on the faces of insecure chauvinists with identity crises and those who espouse radical ideologies. It is identified by pursed lips in combination with squinted eyes, a furrowed brow, raised eyebrows, and a tilted head – all together forming a confused wincing grimace that a conceited child would make during a bowel movement. This bizarre contortion of the face into a smirky sneer is frequently expressed by critically unstable groupthinkers in moments of high stress or manic arrogance to feign confidence. It is indicative of deep mental instability and/or unresolved psychological conflict.”
Hahahah. From the comments.
Also a doctor
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1672791664564240384
LOLOLOLOL
Woops! Page isn’t reloading after comments.
That’s hilarious.
I’m glad I have free Wi-Fi on this flight.
Awesome.
We do not deserve Elon
Nice.
“One notable thing about this rapidly developing international story: Since Elon Musk took a sledgehammer to Twitter’s verification system, the platform is far less useful during breaking news events, and so people are depending on traditional newsrooms for verifiable information.”
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1672641275655340033
This person literally works at CNN.
Crap, it seems I’m stuck in Gilmore mode, and I don’t have the clothes for it.
No offense, but I’ve been fearing that your presence here may signify a trend wherein the women Glibs become outnumbered by potatoes.
We better keep an eye on him/her
I think there are only two potatoes. Not sure how many women, but isn’t it double digits?
May be close to 2 dozen of us, in fact.
This is getting annoying.
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1672641355913330688
No widespread corruption. Hundreds of courts found no basis for assuming fraud. The election went the way it did because of the BOM’s mean tweets.
The more that activists see judges as an alternative to winning popular support, the more judges will serve as conduits for conservative movement goals of economic libertarian activism, anti-abortion policies, expansive gun rights, and efforts to stymie anti-corruption and campaign finance reform measures. These targeted attempts to shape constitutional law now extend not just to judicial elections in key states but also the selection of new federal judges and the lobbying of sitting jurists, even on the Supreme Court.
Moreover, as long as cozy connections between judges and political actors remain poorly regulated and structural conditions remain unchanged, judges will remain open to capture by narrow interests and movements.
Economic libertarian activism! OMG, the horror.
The HORROR.
Liberty can be scary.
The progjection is strong.
“The more that activists see judges as an alternative to winning popular support”
WE LEARNED IT FROM YOU, LEFTIES! WE LEARNED IT FROM YOU.
activists see judges as an alternative to winning popular support
I.e. the leftist m.o. for the last century.
The progjection is strong.
Right wing fanatics have skinsuited our most vital and beloved institutions!
So, the migration of sand from south to north is a natural process which has been going on forever. Good luck changing that. And you think you can manipulate climate by burning less fossil fuel.
Needs more compacted auto bodies.
Urgent
As Pride month events continue in June, members of the LGBTQ community and security experts are expressing concerns about growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment in the U.S.
“We are in the midst of a threat environment that is more complex and more disturbing than any other that I’ve experienced in my close to 40 years in law enforcement and homeland security,” said John Cohen, a former acting undersecretary for intelligence and counter-terrorism coordinator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and an ABC News contributor.
The current threat against the LGBTQ community is worse than when the mass shooting occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, seven years ago, Cohen says. The June 2016 massacre killed 49 people and injured 53 more.
Wholesale slaughter. Rivers of blood. Muddy footprints all over our rainbow pride chalk sidewalk art.
“a threat environment”
English muthafucka, do you speak it?
“The current threat against the LGBTQ community is worse than when the mass shooting occurred at the Pulse nightclub”
You can tell by all the alphabet people being shot and beaten all over the country by MAGAts.
Left as an exercise to the reader is that the Pulse nightclub shooting had nothing to do with it being a gay club, of course.
Or white supremacists, MAGA Republicans, parents groups, alt-right, Christians, white people….
Matthew Shepard is still a poster victim.
That was totally a hate crime and had nothing to do with drug dealing, nosiree bob.
Well, one-off events drive “current threats” duh.
No idea why a political backlash might be brewing. Utterly none. Perfect little angels, the LGBTQ2SIA+ activists are…
Purity spirals are a real bitch.
concerns about growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment in the U.S.
Then leave the kids alone and stop screwing up the military.
FTFY
That’s RIGHT, you cis-homo bigoted dinosaur!!
🙄😆
So yeah, all the “anti” stuff I’m seeing is aimed at the T and Q takeover of the “movement”.
Trans’s takeover of female sports and female spaces in general.
Queers demonstrating that they’re really just radical leftists – you don’t even have to be queer anymore to be queer.
The TQ obsession with children is at least as important as those when discussing the roots of this (rather feeble, so far) “backlash”.
It’s not T pushing the kids stuff, it’s G & L organizations such as HRC, GLAAD, GLSEN, Trevor Project, etc. Political movements don’t stop once they achieve their goals.
We went from “behavior of consenting adults in private is nobody else’s business” to “if a schoolteacher convinces your kid to undergo bodily mutilation and you object, the State of California can take away your kid”, one ratchet click at a time.
The ISD report noted that the types of groups behind the anti-drag activity have gone beyond the usual anti-LGBTQ groups and include growing numbers of local extremists, white supremacists, parents’ rights activists, members of anti-vaxxer groups, and Christian nationalists.
“Round up the usual suspects.”
extremists, white supremacists, parents’ rights activists, members of anti-vaxxer groups, and Christian nationalists.
Aka terms that describe normal people that simply disagree with the QUILTBAG Alphabet People Cult and agenda.
Photo caption:
A protester holds a sign reading “GOD HATES PRIDE” as parade participants pass during the Kentuckiana Pride Parade, June 17, 2023, in Louisville, Ky.
It is a cardinal sin, you know.
I saw a clip of Piers Morgan last night…. guest said something like “I support your pride in your sexuality… but why do *I* have to take pride in your sexuality?”
The gay guest says, “why does a flag trigger you?”
Again, “I’m not triggered by a flag, but why do I have to take pride in your sexuality? ”
I thought it was a pretty good retort… but they got sidetracked by his flag diversion and they didn’t actually address the “live and let live” libertarian approach.
These are the same people offended by institution names, statues, and other flags.
Yup.
It is a cardinal sin, you know.
Strange that a Christian might adhere to Christian doctrine.
“why does a flag trigger you?”
I’m sure I could ask you the same thing about other flags.
A rainbow Confederate flag would be awesome about now.
Add a Nazi swastika and I’m down to troll.
A quick image search show a few of those
A comment from SDF-7’s link:
“Come for the children, sty for the woodchipper”
Which one of you was that?
She is challenging the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act which she said requires her to create custom websites for same-sex marriages. Smith asserts that the state law violates her First Amendment rights.
Compelled speech, of course. So yes, it does violate her rights. We already did this with the baker and alphabet cuntes are still pulling this crap. And I don’t understand why they insist on trying to contract services (and give money to) people that they think hate them.
It’s about being able to sue the people they hate into oblivion.
Every time we go out to eat, I sneak into the kitchen and tell the chef that I fucked his mother. Before we order, of course.
This would be more of an anecdote if you’d stop going to your son’s restaurant… “I know, Dad! Can you go back to your table now?”
Moore challenges the ability of state courts to overrule gerrymandered political maps, maintaining that legislatures are the final unilateral arbiters of state election laws, not state courts.
The case stems from the North Carolina State Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that political maps drawn by state legislative Republicans violated the state constitution.
Every political map is a gerrymandered balancing act.
Daily ray of sunshine
Works for me!
Excellent. Thanks!
“The Guidance does not require the States to do or refrain from doing anything,” Prelogar wrote in the filing. “Instead, it simply guides federal officials in the enforcement of federal law against individuals who are strangers to this case.”
There wouldn’t be a problem if the federal government would simply enforce existing immigration law.
Looking through a twatter thread I see a bunch of pics of shirtless RFK jr. Have the Putin comparisons begun yet?
TRUST THE EXPERTS!!!!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/06/25/rogan-debate-challenge-shows-why-covid-misinformation-thrives/70347479007/
Go Fuck Yourself
That guy…..
He starts with a straw man argument, then moves to say science isn’t up for debate. What a maroon.
lol
And… I’m out.
And I don’t understand why they insist on trying to contract services (and give money to) people that they think hate them.
It’s not as if there are no “rainbow friendly” businesses out there. Why wouldn’t you seek them out and support them?
Haha, I crack myself up.
They are showing their dominance by forcing these people to do things against their will. They don’t care that they will pay a few bucks for it, and I don’t think they really care about whatever damages they might collect.
It’s a demonstration of power, pure and simple.
Sex is determined at conception, not birth. She doesn’t understand basic biology.
Yes. Also- observed, not assigned.
But other than that….
I saw an altbier style by a romanian craft brewer for the first time. I never had the german stuff so no idea if authentic
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5nQWXjkG5A47tCXn8
Looks like a Düsseldorf Alt from the picture. Looks similar to what I had in Düsseldorf.
There is an Alt native to Münster which is a bit different than the Düsseldorf Alt.
Wrong style glass, but the color looks right.
Jaws marathon on TNT today. ⛵
OMWC hardest bit.
it is finally raining and cooling down a bit. 70 silly degrees outside hopefully going down a bit more
102 today here. Need to water the potted plants twice today. Might go see Spaniard and float in the pool.
Warmer here than yesterday but the humidity went from 95% to 60% which makes all the difference.
60%? Jeebus, still sounds awful.
I think we’re at around 8 – 10% humidity today.
That’s on the low side for us.
Our dewpoint has been around 3 degrees (merican) lately, swamp cooler is kicking ass!
Delay of game
Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked that former President Donald Trump stand trial beginning in December on the federal indictment charging him with illegally retaining national security secrets and obstruction of justice.
In a court filing Friday night, prosecutors said the involvement of classified information in the case makes an earlier start for the trial unrealistic and they recommended beginning jury selection on December 11.
They need more time? I thought it was a slam dunk.
It is a slam dunk!
If I was a judge, I wouldn’t entertain any requests from the prosecution to postpone trial. If you don’t have your case squared away when you indict, tough shit.
IKR. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. The defendant is accused of being Donald Trump. This prosecution will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is in fact Donald Trump.
Prosecutors told Cannon that the case isn’t complex by most measures, arguing that it “involves straightforward theories of liability, and does not present novel questions of fact or law.”
However, the government lawyers said the legal procedures surrounding the use of classified information in a criminal case require some delay.
Are they going to have to get security clearances for the jury and everybody else in the courtroom?
Some airlines said they don’t expect problems, with most or all of their planes now having the updated equipment, or they expect to be able to plan around any restrictions for those that don’t.
With the July 1 deadline now approaching after 18 months, more than 80% of the domestic fleet and about 65% of international aircraft that fly to the U.S. have radar altimeters that won’t be susceptible to interference from 5G signals, Buttigieg said.
I like that, as you read the article, the Daily Fail slowly walks back their earlier claims.
When you find someone as geeky about guns as you.
On the Russian front, a blogger linked above says the war in Ukraine has cost “hundreds of thousands of Russian lives and wounded”
Vietnam was 15 years and cost some 58,000 lives. This, in an era that still was infantry heavy and much less advanced medical interventions available.
The numbers have been insane from both sides in this conflict. If I took the worst estimates from both sides, the desth toll would be at WWII levels and nearly everyone in Ukraine would be dead.
Does anyone have a decent source for any numbers on this conflict?
Or are we just flying blind in the all-propaganda, all the time era?
I asked Google, and they defer to Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Total_casualties
They actually list various sources, so they give estimates by Ukraine, Russia, The US, the UN….
And interestingly the US puts casualty totals at roughly double those claimed by either Russia or Ukraine.
Also interesting. … the US put out “20,000 casualties pee week” early on, then it was half that a month later, then it was 20.000 per month….
None of the estimates today would support those early estimates.
TBF: 58k was US military dead. Total military dead both sides was closer to 1.5m.
Yeah, I was kinda comparing Russia in Ukraine to the US experience in Vietnam.
The US in 1970 was about 1/3 more populous than Russia is today. I just can’t see these nations tolerating casualties at 4 times the rate of the US Vietnam experience.
Grocery Checkout lady: “remind me what this is called?”
Me: “rhubarb”
Checkout lady: “what do you use it for?”
Welcome to the South!
(I was shocked to even see it in the store. I bought their whole supply)
I love ya, KK, but 🤢
“You mix it with strawberries to make the world’s best pie!!” 😋🥧
^^^This. Yum!
Yes.
I’ve never understood why so many people insist on making rhubarb taste like strawberries.
Signed,
rhubarb snob 🧐
I like it straight and mixed. I grew up on stewed rhubarb as an entire dessert.
Unfortunately, either the sugar didn’t fully mix or it crystallized because I’ve got sugar chunks in my strawberry rhubarb jam.
Better ideas
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a Ford Motor Co. recall of more than a quarter-million Explorer SUVs in the U.S. after receiving complaints about repairs intended to prevent the vehicles from unexpectedly rolling away even while placed in park.
The problem, ascribed to fractures of a rear axle mounting bolt that could lead the drive shaft to disconnect, was addressed by a Ford software update designed to apply the electronic parking brake if the drive shaft failed, the agency said. But according to two complaints from vehicle owners, their SUVs behaved erratically following the repair.
In one of those cases, the Explorer would reportedly slam to a complete stop at speeds of up to 30 or 40 miles per hour. In the other, it would reportedly lurch into motion while the driver was attempting to disengage the electronic brake. No injuries were reported in these cases, although the first driver reported striking a utility pole when the Explorer started rolling downhill following an abrupt stop, seemingly because the drivetrain was disengaged.
WTF? Makes you want to rush right out and buy a Ford, don’t it.
So applying the parking brake due to a manufacturing defect, when the driver didn’t do so. And that’s the intended action.
Let’s make complex systems even complexer!
Yeah, as a Ford family I’ve bought my last one with all the quality issues of the past decade.
GM isn’t much better.
Japan here I come!
Looking forward to the “Learning Japanese through automobile owner’s manuals” posts.
This just continues a long tradition of Fords that roll after being put into “Park”. The real question is what have they screwed up on the spark plugs this go around? First they did the one that popped out of the cylinder heads. Then they surprised the world with a 2 piece brazed design that would split in 2 while trying to remove it leaving a portion stuck in the head requiring either a head removal or a special tool to extract the piece left behind.
I’ve never understood why so many people insist on making rhubarb taste like strawberries.
Exactly. I like it by itself, cooked up like applesauce.
You are a obviously gentleman of taste and refinement.
I like using rhubarb juice instead of lime juice in a Moscow Mule.
Hmmm…. I’ve been having trouble getting my hands on my preferred sauce apples. Any prep other than chopping required before cooking the rhubarb?
When I do mine I just chop and stew. Add enough water to cover. When done stewing, strain through cheesecloth and set the juice aside. Sugar the sauce and the juice to taste.
Cubs losing 6-4 to St. Louis in London. Four of those runs of theirs should be unearned. They best make that “hit” a Mancini error, cuz Stroman does not deserve that obvious misplay.
Going out with Dad and 3 nephews in a bit. Tomorrow I’m going to a walk-in clinic. I am not taking my meds today (they’re far too strong and I’ve lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks and they deaden my tremors, as well as the rest of my emotions and sex drive. Loss of appetite and sex drive will get docs’ attention. So will the tremors if they come back, which they will if I go to a hospital.
I also kinda expect to have withdraw/DTs. They’ve also mentioned that lorazepam and phenobarbital, which excites me. I hate hospitals, they’re no place for sick folk, and I want to be as out-of-it as possible.
Well. It will be interesting.
Not taking meds comment: Unlike two impeachments and every indictment until post election, I play my strongest hand first. Might as well show them any/all symptoms I can.
Like I care. It won’t kill me.
Yikes. Good luck. I hope they find you something that agrees with you; everyone is different.
When I was late in receiving my mail-order Keppra, I decided to half the dose I was on until the new bottles came in, “just for a few days.” Ended up having two grand mal seizures in one day, one at work, another at the ER. The ER one was so bad I broke my own L2 & L3 vertebrae with my muscle, and the docs had to inject me with something to make it stop after 5 minutes.
So, as GT says, be careful!
It’s not as if the Cubbies didn’t kick the ‘birds’ butts yesterday./disgruntled Cards fan
Please be careful with your meds – and take care in general.