¿Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos?

by | Apr 23, 2024 | Daily Links | 161 comments

Yesterday I caught Part 2 of Rebel Moon.  Once again, Zach Snyder proves he is the the ultimate, self-important, pompous sci-fi douchebag.  Let’s all marvel at the intense visual spectacle that I am actually embarrassed to say took me halfway through Part 1 to figure out this is just The Magnificent Seven in space.  Seriously, they even made the Asian girl a literal Samurai.  My guess is Snyder wrote the screenplay without ever watching either Western film, let alone the Japanese film they hawked to make said westerns.

Is it entertaining?  Sure.  Does it have the annoying girl boss character?  Yes, except it takes place on a moon so the super strength thing can be explained by gravity.  She also technically has a backstory suggesting she actually had to acquire her skillset which is 95% applied violence and 5% sex appeal—provided you are into lesbian Sarah Connor types.

Also, I couldn’t tell if they had laser or plasma weapons, that bothered me for some reason.  Shoot a guy and it has a fluorescent orange splash when it hits raises a couple questions.

¡enlaces!

Let’s start with the white pill.  The chatter on TwiX is the lone holdout on the jury wasn’t a vote to acquit, it was to convict.  Which means 7/8 people from the part of the state my family is from don’t think he did anything worth throwing him in prison.  I won’t be surprised if they try him again.

The press is going to try to turn her into a sympathetic figure like they did initially with Trudeau, aren’t they?

Mexico detains brother of a drug kingpin.

Meanwhile, Mexicans in the US are a confusing bunch.

If you’re going to trade war, you can’t be surprised if they trade war right back.

X has five days—five days to explain why they won’t comply with a Kangaroo court ruling.

 

Here’s a tune, have a nice day

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161 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    I do that every day.

  2. Common Tater

    Never thought of Sarah Connor as a lesbian.

    • Sean

      I’ll be in my bunk.

      • SDF-7

        Doing chin ups?

      • Common Tater

        Linda Hamilton or Lena Headey?

      • SDF-7

        “Embrace the power of AND” has never seemed more apt. Assuming both in their heyday, of course.

      • Sean

        ^^^^^^^^^^^

      • Bobarian LMD

        Thus the “lesbian” thing.

        Bow Chicka…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “That’s Hedley.”

      • Sean

        Anyone watch Beacon 23?

        Worth watching?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Sarah Connor is not. Technically Kora isn’t either, they just make her look that way.

  3. Common Tater

    I still don’t get what possible authority Australia or Brazil would have over some company in another country.

    • SDF-7

      I can certainly see why they’d want to try — but yeah, I fully support companies telling them to fuck off and not having some stupid international treaty system giving options for punishing companies following the law in the countries they operate in and only being exposed to other countries via the Internet.

      But then we couldn’t punish other countries and other companies for stepping out of line… so the Imperial District can’t have that…..

      Stupid fucking “Post WWII world order” bullshit.

    • Suthenboy

      I dont understand why the highest functioning, most innovative and sophisticated companies in the world cant be subject to monkey tribunals in the poorest, most backward countries in the world. They may not have any knowledge about the laws and cultures of the companies but they do have indigenous knowledge…is that what they call it?
      With these types it is about money. It is always about money. Extortion is their MO. The Sioux just forgot that they have no actual leverage when they demanded that people stop trespassing on their sacred lunar ground.

      • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

        Because they don’t own the phone carriers.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    this is just The Magnificent Seven in space.

    I liked “High Noon” in space.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Which one was that, Spaceballs?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Outland.

        The space version of Stagecoach? Firefly.

        The Searchers? Star Wars.

      • Nephilium

        Wagon Trail (IN SPACE!) – Star Trek.

      • Chafed

        RIP most of the crew.

      • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

        So, was Ice Pirates the space RawHide?

      • R C Dean

        I thought Star Wars was The Hidden Fortress in Space.

      • hayeksplosives

        I thought Star Wars was The Wizard of Oz.

    • Evan from Evansville

      A friend argues there are only two plots: ‘The search for lost treasure’ and ‘A stranger comes to town.’ We agreed those were the same, told from different points of view.
      He’s being overly simplistic, but it largely checks out. Just change the ‘treasure,’ ‘stranger’ or ‘town.’

      I was never sexually attracted to Sarah Conner, but Hamilton CAN be quite attractive. Sarah can take me. I’m not sure if that arouses me. As for Lena, she’s always handy.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Evan dear, can you muzzle that thing occasionally? Thainks.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Nope.

        (Although thankfully, kinda-sorta did with crazy-bitch ex, who WAS a (physically+) super hot, legit int’l tax lawyer in Manhattan. She’s originally from Peru, IN and we met at IU 15 years ago. She just got into my life last year. She ALSO legit became a sex worker (of certain sorts I’m ‘aware of’) and lost her tax job and has semi-returned into my life.)

        I meet interestin’ folk, I know. I kind can’t help myself it seems. Book seems Must Happen. Now, time for din-din with Dad.

      • Nephilium

        I recall there were the six basic conflicts (Man vs…) and a similar number of plots.

      • R C Dean

        I thought the two ur-plots were “someone goes on a journey” and “a stranger comes to town”. As you note, just different POVs.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The only reboot I want to watch is Blazing Saddles in Space.

      I want to see Darth Vader hold a light saber to his head and threaten the citizens of the Death Star: “No body move or the Sith gets it”

      • Pope Jimbo

        We’ll give some land to the Jawas and the Wookies, but we don’t want the Ewoks!

      • Bobarian LMD

        “CHEWBACCA AM JUST PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE.”

        (As portrayed by newcomer STEVE SMITH)

      • Pope Jimbo

        Me tell, schatze, twue it is what they say about gifted the way you people are?

        Twue it is! Oh, twue it is!

  5. The Other Kevin

    “If you’re going to trade war, you can’t be surprised if they trade war right back.”

    Trump’s “bloodbath” speech was about this exactly.

    • SDF-7

      Yup… maybe it will dissolve NAFTA as a consequence and we can stop trying to regulate all of North America. (Yeah yeah… free trade argle blargle… I don’t think anything we have at the moment resembles free trade so I’d rather damned well be a protectionist being I’m a nationalist and think globalism empowers Davos. How’s that for your bubble there, JI?)

      • UnCivilServant

        The more of it I see, the more “Free” trade isn’t.

      • Spudalicious

        Free trade died with the creation of the Fed.

      • Spudalicious

        NAFTA is as dissolved by Trump and replaced with USMCA. Mexico and Canada weren’t too happy about it.

      • juris imprudent

        How’s that for your bubble there, JI?

        Well, we usually do well with trade, particularly since we aren’t dependent on it. And low-information voters love to be misled.

      • UnCivilServant

        How do you come to this conclusion that “We aren’t dependent upon trade”?

      • The Hyperbole

        Not ji (natch) but ‘we’ have all the natural resources needed to be self sufficient. Do ‘we’ still benefit from trade? absolutely but we* aren’t dependent on it., Hell most countries (outside of some tiny island nations or land locked shitholes) aren’t dependent on trade. As I tell the waitresses at my regular watering hole, I don’t need a beer but I really, really want one. We don’t need trade but we really, really should want it.

        * I’m gonna stop putting single quotes around we but pretend they are still there.

  6. SDF-7

    provided you are into lesbian Sarah Connor types.

    We’re not going to watch it… are we?

    Nothing I’ve heard about either it or the first one gives me any desire to bother. But don’t let that stop you, MS!

    • Bobarian LMD

      Disappointed. No lesbians in that link. Here it being Lesbian Visibility Week and all.

  7. Common Tater

    “When an American family buys it at a Walmart store near them, they may have little idea of the complex geopolitics underpinning its production.”

    They probably also don’t care.

    • Fourscore

      If it’s cheap and available, that’s the important thing

  8. Shpip

    A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has given social media platform X until Friday to explain why it allegedly did not fully comply with earlier rulings ordering the Elon Musk-owned company to block certain accounts.

    “Because you’re not the boss of me, that’s why.”

    • Drake

      I thought Musk’s plan was to pull his people out of Brazil, then tell them to fuck right off?

      • SDF-7

        I think he waxed on about that plan over the weekend, yeah.

      • Tonio

        What you did there, smoov, it was.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Knew who it was before clicking. She can cook for me anyday.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I don’t pay too much attention to them, but I notice they harp on the requirement to bring your ID card to vote. And let’s keep elections ¡free and fair!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I have a relative who had to stop watching that and other cooking shows, for sake of blood sugar.

      • rhywun

        I had to stop watching Top Chef because it got too goddamn woke.
        The Ramsey shows are more enjoyable because there is less of that stuff.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      I love Pati, shes so sexy, and so wholesome.

      I had no idea she was Jewish. They’re everywhere.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not as if Xwixxer can just stop shipping their product to other countries. Even if they tried, black marketeers would find a way to smuggle it in.

  10. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    My man Javier must have had a quiet week

      • Bobarian LMD

        Little Cindy Who… Who was only two.

      • kinnath

        I know of this . . .

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not more than.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Amid this tension, Mr Dussel says: “Mexico is putting up a big sign to China saying: ‘Welcome to Mexico!’. You don’t need a PhD to know that this isn’t going to end well for bilateral relations between the US and Mexico in the medium term,” he adds.

    Same old colonialist muscle-flexing.

  12. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Mexico is America’s backdoor? I thought it was Stormy Daniels.

    • juris imprudent

      Isn’t the connection with pot and butt-sex plain enough?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Never

    • SDF-7

      They’ll probably just implement a mandatory fast-food equity tax after they figure out the electricity equity one. Communism was not just a red herring in this state.

    • Evan from Evansville

      (Most?) People won’t notice. Or say anything. Despite all the predictable reality around us.

      Honestly, it’s China’s fevered fantasies (and significant investment) coming true. Everyone, different within every generation, sees The (obvious) End nearing. Like all history, it won’t end well. (Well, for us, if we’re still we’re still here. The coming generations will have life much, much better than before. Just like we did, and every other generation. Being human ain’t easy.)

      • R C Dean

        “The coming generations will have life much, much better than before. Just like we did, and every other generation.”

        You need to study more history. Sure, the trend over millennia is upward in some/many parts of the world, but there are a lot of plateaus and declines in there.

  13. Tonio

    “talk about wanting to succeed from the US, start an ethno state in Southwest USA and calls it “Aztlán”

    Sounds like a path to success.

    • juris imprudent

      Haha, that’s the name used in Vinge’s Across Real Time for the feudal state there post U.S.

    • R C Dean

      Nothing says “open borders” like “ethnostate”.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Which one was that, Spaceballs?

    Outland. Sean Connery as The Sheriff.

    • Spudalicious

      I enjoyed that movie. It may be time for a rewatch.

  15. Drake

    The trade war may escalate shortly.

    Blinken is on his way to China to threaten them with sanctions if they keep trading with Russia. Of course China is going to tell him to piss-off. Once we start sanctioning China, they’ll have no reason to not start selling them cast quantities of military equipment to make up the difference.

    The nerve of making this trip a few days after we gave Taiwan $billions in military aid is something. I doubt Tony will get a warm reception.

    https://apnews.com/article/us-china-blinken-xi-middle-east-russia-210b07bcc585b9f2de14ff71951d8743

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I imagine they’ll do just that but the Russians are surprisingly managing to produce more than enough for themselves on their own. I guess keeping those outmoded and unprofitable industries around for a rainy day does actually have some tangible benefits in the right set of circumstances.

  16. EvilSheldon

    The Kelly trial has been an absolute mess, from what little I’ve been able to ascertain. Numerous violations of procedure and severe misunderstandings of black-letter law were described in that single linked article.

    Just based on what I could find, I would have found Kelly guilty of aggravated assault. I don’t think that you can sustain a murder charge, without provably linking his weapon to the dead body, but he did admit to pointing and firing his weapon at the trespassers, and he didn’t have a reasonable self-defense claim.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I recall there were multiple instances of trespassing on his ranch, not that it has much bearing on the specific incident.

    • R C Dean

      I think aggravated assault would be the best technically correct verdict. As soon as I heard about it, I thought “Warning shots. Always stupid. Telling the cops you were firing warning shots in the direction of somebody – oof.”

      I would have voted to acquit. Cartel drug mules on your property are outlaws, hostis humani generis. Also, jury nullification.

    • rhywun

      ‘Bout time somebody investigated this and yeah, no surprises. Of course it’s all well-funded and organized – that is what the left does.

    • Compelled Speechless

      What exactly do they need funding for? Is it for legal fees if they get arrested? I just don’t see how there’s any hard costs to loudly telling everyone that you’re not going to class and occupying spaces you’re not supposed to.

      No, I will not read your article. I am lazy.

      • rhywun

        Professionally produced signage for starters. Transporting rabble in from out of town. Etc. I understand the level of organization going on here is not cheap.

      • R C Dean

        I have little doubt that there are cash stipends for the protestors, too. The left has done it before, why not here?

        Sorry, The Hyperbole, I don’t have names, addresses, identifying information, and voting records for the members of the organizations behind this, so I just call them “the left”. Its probably just a conspiracy theory, and doesn’t exist.

      • The Hyperbole

        Do you know the name of the organizations behind this? that would be sufficient. You could even say the DNC, as generic as that is, at least its an actual thing and can be checked and held accountable if they did. When there is some leak about something Glibs seem to want names or it didn’t happen, but if I complain that “you people” are being unnecessarily vague, suddenly I’m the asshole.

      • DrOtto

        “…suddenly I’m the asshole.” – suddenly?

  17. Suthenboy

    Yeah, they will try him again, and others. Hopefully we start getting some acquittals.

    Mexico, first woman president, not Jewish….they left something out or it is further down that I didn’t read. The word starts with a capitol C, doesnt it? Why else would they push her. I remember the glowing praise and ‘it will work this time, you will see!’ talk when Chavez was on the tise. I swear these useful idiots are as predictable as the sunrise.

    I dont care. Close the border and fuck you, cut taxes. Stop giving money to the tin-pot thugs in Ukraine.

    Lets flee Mexico and turn America into another Mexico! A country is a product of its culture. Culture…you cant wash that shit off with gasoline.
    Wherever you go, there. you are. It aint just Mexicans. All of the native snowbirds and massholes need to go back where they came from too.
    Oh, and like the nice Chinese lady said “Fuck you, there is no debate. You cant have my guns.”

    All of the Chinese made stuff I have bought, regardless of where it is actually made, was cargo cult junk.

    Because fuck you, that’s why? You are a kangaroo court with no credibility or jurisdiction over us, that’s why? I dunno, pick your reason.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Breaking the bonds of slavery

    The South is a rough place for unions. The unionization rate is around 8 percentage points lower there than it is outside the region. “The history of Southern political economy is to a great extent a history of the unbreakable addiction of Southern political and economic elites to no-wage and low-wage labor,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie recently explained in a piece contextualizing the stakes of the Chattanooga vote. And the total dominance of Republicans in the South means that the party’s allegiance to representing big business — whose interests are at odds with the interests of the workers they exploit — go largely unchallenged in the region. Part of the way that manifests today is through so-called “right-to-work” laws, which make it harder for workers to form and sustain unions, in part by allowing nonunion workers to access union benefits without paying dues. This policy is the law of the land across the entire South, including Tennessee.

    At long last, justice for the Working Man.

    That Fain guy impresses me as somebody who would be more comfortable in a room full of Ivy League teaching assistants than with a group of people who actually make things with their hands.

    • R.J.

      “The history of Southern political economy is to a great extent a history of the unbreakable addiction of Southern political and economic elites to no-wage and low-wage labor,”

      Oh fuck off. We just aren’t stupid enough to throw our money away on unions. Everything down here is cheaper as a result.

      • rhywun

        Oh look, a slavery reference. Stay classy, MSNBC.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Everything is slavery and slavery is everything. Also, it’s everyone else that’s divisive.

    • Homple

      It’s a Volkswagen factory, and VW in Germany operates in a co-determation (“Mitbestimmung”) legal environment which gives unions a place on corporate governing bodies plus some other rights. Perhaps VW knows how to deal with unions in a non-hostile manner and this will work out. That system seems to work well in Germany.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

      • R C Dean

        I wonder, what would you call a system where Capital, Labor, and the State each have a place a the table?

        We may have shot the Nazi Party and the National Fascist Party out of office in the 1940s, but the fascists absolutely took over Europe.

      • Homple

        It’s nothing like the NSDAP stuff at all in Germany.

    • hayeksplosives

      — whose interests are at odds with the interests of the workers they exploit —

      Now, wait just a cotton picking minute…

  19. Shpip

    Mexican authorities have detained the brother of the drug kingpin known as “el Mencho,” a federal source with knowledge of the case told CNN Monday.

    Abraham Oseguera – alias “Don Rondo” – was detained in the western state of Michoacán and is currently in the custody of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office, according to a government statement.

    His brother, Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes, is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

    It wasn’t a government action, but the sibling of the Parkland shooter went to culinary school, graduated in the top 10% of his class — and then couldn’t get a job anywhere in south Florida, due to his relative’s notoriety.

    He finally moved out of state, and now has a successful career as a line chef at a high-end place in Atlanta.

    Just goes to show, you shouldn’t judge a cook by its brother.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      🤨

      Rick Bayless versus Skip.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of movies, I watched “The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini” last night. A dopey ’60s horror comedy with dancing and singing teens. A beach party movie with a haunted mansion instead of a beach.

    Better than anything Quentin Taranitno ever did.

    • SDF-7

      I got my son to sit down and watch Guys and Dolls (my wife ended up watching too after insisting she’d tune out after the beginning). Enjoyed by all — though my wife stated the crazy opinion that Adelaide is just annoying (my favorite character in the film… so verging on fightin’ words!)

    • R.J.

      That was a good one. How about “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine?”

      • SDF-7

        Is that the one where the machine malfunctioned and there was no bikini atoll?

      • Common Tater

        That would be good for a Thursday night.

    • rhywun

      LOL the previous article on this didn’t show her. He should also have asked her to put on some clothing.

      But yeah, don’t make me root for that asshole (him).

      • Compelled Speechless

        Any chance that this teaches him the self-awareness that holding people hostage and shouting your incredibly childish and naïve political opinions at them in every possible venue is more than a bit of a dick move?

        ***Begins holding breath***

      • rhywun

        To be fair, he is such an amazingly hilarious asshole. Like that rant against his young daughter Howard Stern used to play all the time. He puts it to good use in many of his films.

    • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

      Damnit, I thought Crackhead Barny was gonna be wearing a dinosaur costume.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That thing is NOT wearing a costume?!?!?!?!

      • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

        But it wasn’t Purple!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    The UAW lost unionization votes at the same plant in Chattanooga in 2014 and 2019, but this time it finally prevailed.

    I wonder if the NLRB allows unlimited repetitive union de-certification votes.

    Haha, I crack myself up.

    • Bobarian LMD

      One way ratchet. Strangulation of the worker.

    • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

      Funny story. Way back when I was a transportation supervisor, the crew voted to certify for the Teamsters.

      and 12 months later to the day voted to de-certify. Seems they didn’t get those raises they had been promised, and even lost money due to union dues.

      • R C Dean

        What somehow never gets mentioned by the union is, after you vote to certify, that’s when the contract negotiation starts. It can take a year or more. During that time, you will get no raises (while your non-unionized colleagues do), no new work rules, nothing much at all really, but you have to start paying dues immediately.

        When the nurses unionized at a couple of hospitals in Tucson, holy shit were they pissed when they learned this. I think it took a couple of years for the new contract to kick in. A lot of them left those hospitals.

  22. Derpetologist

    That time the CIA overthrew the government of Australia:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMa-Ba-2Mo

    RAINFALL is more of an NSA facility, despite the video title. Basically, Kerr was the governor-general (colonial era and mostly ceremonial post) and so had the authority to remove the prime minister.

    ***
    Kerr had been involved with a number of CIA fronts. In the 1950s, Kerr had joined the Association for Cultural Freedom, a conservative group which had been established by, and received funding from, the CIA through the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Kerr was on its executive board and wrote for its magazine Quadrant. In 1966, Kerr helped to found Lawasia (or Law Asia), an organization of lawyers which had offices in all the major capitals of Asia. It was funded by The Asia Foundation, a prominent CIA front.[171]

    Christopher Boyce, who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union while an employee of a CIA contractor, said the CIA wanted Whitlam removed from office because he threatened to close US military bases in Australia, including Pine Gap. Boyce said Kerr was described by the CIA as “our man Kerr”.[172] Former ASIO chief Sir Edward Woodward has dismissed the notion of CIA involvement,[173] as has journalist Paul Kelly.[174][175]
    ***

    • R.J.

      That explains a lot.

  23. Shpip

    Last week, Tampa Bay Rays closer Pete Fairbanks was touched up for three hits and two walks in a blown save loss to the Angels.

    He then gave one of the greatest post-game interviews in modern sports history, combining a brutally honest assessment of his own performance with the perfect baseball “the past is over, we’ll get ’em next time” mentality.

    Fairbanks has since been placed on the disabled injured list by the team with nerve issues in this arm.

    • Pope Jimbo

      a-lol! Thanks for that. I may have to hire that guy to be my PR flack.

  24. kinnath

    Great

  25. Pope Jimbo

    TOK, you are doomed. Your journeys to Minnesoda to play hockey killed you. Sure you were on the ice, but you were next to soccer fields full of Forever Chemicals!!!!!

    In an effort to upgrade the facility, the Blaine City Council last week approved $12 million in property tax abatement to help fund the installation of 10 new artificial turf fields. But Campbell, as well as Blaine City Council member Lori Saroya and other residents, have voiced concerns about the potential for forever chemicals in the synthetic turf.

    “Blaine has an identity as a major soccer city, and that means decisions about our sports infrastructure impacts countless young athletes and their families,” Campbell said. “With so many kids and young adults playing on these fields, the potential exposure and its lifelong health implications are a significant concern for our community.”

    • Bobarian LMD

      Because no one in Minnesoda would ever be exposed to plastic, otherwise?

      • Bobarian LMD

        And why is no one concerned for the Vikings? Maybe if they won a Super Bowl, people might care.

      • R.J.

        Sick burn. Cowboys hardest hit.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The Vikes have caused a larger negative impact on the health of Minnesodans than all the soccer fields in the state COMBINED!

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s right next to Super Rink right? I’m heading there in 5 weeks. I’ll make sure we pack respirators.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yup. The Super Rink is surrounded by a shit ton of soccer fields.

        So me being a good guy and showing up to support you probably killed me too.

      • R.J.

        I just read that conversation and died.

    • Fourscore

      Could they build an international airport there so the northern 2/3rds of the state could avoid Twin City traffic if the potential flyers ever wanted to run the TSA gauntlet?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “With so many kids and young adults playing on these fields, the potential exposure and its lifelong health implications are a significant concern for our community.”

    How has such a fragile species managed to survive to this point?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      By living in harmony with nature.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Indigenous Knowledge?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Heinous

    A Colombian handbag designer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after federal prosecutors said she illegally smuggled handbags made from caiman and python skin — both protected species — to New York.

    ——-

    The Department of Justice said in a news release that Gonzalez made bags of caiman and python skin — both of which are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, an international agreement to protect wildlife signed by both the U.S. and Colombia.

    Under the Endangered Species Act, the trade of such species isn’t fully banned, but requires a permit issued by the host country to be cleared by U.S. officials upon importation.

    She should have used Florida pythons.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “This investigation uncovered a multi-year scheme that involved paid couriers smuggling undeclared handbags made of CITES-protected reptile skins into the U.S. to be sold for thousands of dollars,” Edward Grace, the assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Office of Law Enforcement, said in a statement.

    The Service will continue to seek justice for protected species exploited for profit, and we will hold accountable those who seek to circumvent international controls meant to regulate their sustainable trade,” he added.

    The case was investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office (USFWS) of Law Enforcement in Valley Stream, New York, with assistance of the Miami Resident Agent in Charge Office of USFWS. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida and the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section

    Lordy. Your tax dollars at work.

    • Gender Traitor

      I’d say that fits the fraternity definition of “several cases.”

      • The Gunslinger

        Good point.

    • Shpip

      The truck was loaded full of beer and other beverages and was on its way from a distributor in Flint to make several stops in the Thumb, according to the sheriff’s office.

      The sheriff’s office said no injuries were reported.

      … Although the beer appeared to be shaken.

    • B.P.

      East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’.

  29. R C Dean

    “Yesterday I caught Part 2 of Rebel Moon.”

    #metoo. Disappointing, to say the least. The wholesome farming community was heavy handed, but I get it, Star Wars homage is going to have a kind of pulpy kid-oriented vibe. But the harvesting of grain by hand just threw me out of suspension of disbelief. They live in a starfaring civilization that is apparently short on food, and they’re using scythes and flails to harvest grain?

    He’s supposedly going to do extended director’s cuts. Pass. He also set up sequels. Also pass. Too bad. I love a brainless space opera, but this one just missed the mark.

    Spoiler alert: at least he killed off the boyfriend.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s almost as stupid as a bunch of stone age miniature bears defeating a starfaring civilization in a battle only minus the cutesie marketing oppurtunities.

  30. R C Dean

    “The chatter on TwiX is the lone holdout on the jury wasn’t a vote to acquit, it was to convict.”

    That was the word in Tucson (and on the news), as I, ahem, reported yesterday. I think 7 jurors who didn’t buy the prosecutions case makes a retrial somewhat less likely.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    They live in a starfaring civilization that is apparently short on food, and they’re using scythes and flails to harvest grain?

    That would explain why they’re short on food.

  32. R C Dean

    “The press is going to try to turn her into a sympathetic figure like they did initially with Trudeau, aren’t they?”

    Woman, yay! Jew, boo! So they have a challenge.

    And what’s this “with a Jewish background” BS, anyway? Her four grandparents were Jews, so she’s a Jew. Since when did we start applying a “how observant are you” test? I don’t recall seeing “Over a thousand people with Jewish backgrounds were raped, tortured, murdered and kidnapped, but it’s not clear how many of them were observant” after 10/7.

    So, yeah, they’re erasing her Jewessness as much as they can to make her sympathetic, because there’s no way they can ever say “Jew, yay!”

  33. Tres Cool

    Nephilium on April 23, 2024 at 3:55 pm
    Wagon Trail (IN SPACE!) – Star Trek.

    No. More like Battlestar Galactica

    • Raven Nation

      Firefly

      • ZWAK will kindle all of the dreams it took a lifetime to destroy

        Firefly is more like Have Gun, Will Travel.

      • kinnath

        I’ll go with this one.

      • The Hyperbole

        As long as it’s not Gunsmoke I’ll watch it.

      • The Hyperbole

        Also, as a straight man I have no frame of reference for this kind a thing but I always thought Richard Boone was one ugly MFer’ So asking the few MLW still hanging here, Do broads really find that flat nosed wrinkly faced baboon attractive?

  34. Derpetologist

    Tucker Carlson not only believes in UFOs, but that they are piloted by angels and demons:

    ***
    Tucker said of unidentified anomalous phenomena, “If they are spiritual beings – which I believe they are – it’s binary, they’re either team good or team bad. And I think some of them are bad.”
    ***

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/tucker-carlson-joe-rogan-podcast-ufos

    Meh, Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. Doyle and Carlson are both fools in this way.

    • rhywun

      When I used to watch his show, I noticed the overabundance of UFO tales. I had to change the channel.

    • Urthona

      That guy has gotten weirder and weirder.

      I never watched cable news but I sometimes caught him when visiting my parents and he could kinda be interesting some times.

      • R.J.

        “ That guy has gotten weirder and weirder.”

        Agreed. I think Fox restrained him from bad decisions more than we all guessed.

    • B.P.

      Maybe he’s warming up to Scientology.